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While a crowd held its breath and stared, Hopkins tried to lower himself on a length of rope which had been dropped to him from an airplane. When his foot slipped, he clambered fearfully back. The rope was too short, anyhow. National Park Service officials, who had been sending instructions via plane, ordered him to stay where he was, wait until they could think of something. Hopkins resigned himself to spending the night there. Park Service mountain climbers tried to get up, failed. Planes dropped food, blankets, wood for a fire, whiskey, a megaphone, which Hopkins used to screech...
...Roebling was a bearded, philosophy-loving German engineer who led a group of his friends to the U.S. in 1831 to escape political and religious oppression. Once the farming community they established at Saxonburg, Pa. was a success, he went back to engineering, made America's first wire rope. Soon he adapted it to building suspension bridges. After he spanned the gorge of the Niagara River at Buffalo in 1850, he and his company were famous...
Since then Roebling cables and wire rope-and often Roebling engineering-have gone into almost every important U.S. suspension bridge. Roebling has 6,200 employes, 21 plants. It also makes electric cables, woven wire cloths and screens, special types of wire used in typewriters, machinery, hardware...
...simple explanation of how to tie various hitches (mooring, rolling, cats-paw, half, etc.) for building pontoon bridges, moving materiel, securing tents. Best feature is the clarity of its explanations and the crafty way the camera has of keeping clearly focused on the role played by the rope...
Turn right back on the same old track And swing that gal behind you! Rope your cow and brand your calf, Swing your honey an hour and a half...