Andrew Hallidie's work on the "endless wire rope way," issued to him on January 17, 1861, led to cable cars a decade later.

from fiber rope nets for climbing to wire nets for safety. The product used for this design was Webnet© micro with a 2mm cable and 80 mm diamond opening, with which designers were able to ...

No wonder those tribes called barbed wire "the devil's rope". The old-time cowboys also lived on the principle that cattle could graze freely across the plains - this was the law of the open range.