Hydraulic jacks then bundled and compressed 61 strands to make a cable. Each of the two main cables is just over three feet in diameter, 7,659 feet long and contains 27,572 parallel wires.

A ski lift cable snapped at Spain's Astún resort on January 17, injuring at least 30 people and leaving about 80 others stranded mid-air.

When Field's first cable was constructed, it had three layers of gutta-percha insulation wrapped around a core of seven strands of copper wire. In all, 300 tons of gutta-percha were used for the ...

L-com, an Infinite Electronics brand, launched its new line of four-strand and six-strand multi-fibre distribution cable assemblies. The four-strand fibre optic assemblies are ideal for smaller, lower ...