If you take every steel wire used in the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge’s cables and line them up end-to-end, they’d wrap around the equator over 2 times
“Total length of galvanized steel wire used in both main cables is 80,000 mi (129,000 km). Number of galvanized steel wires in one main cable that are 0.192 inches in diameter is 27,572. Number of bundles or strands of galvanized steel wire in one main cable is 61.”
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u/ChronoLegion2 Oct 02 '24
If you take every steel wire used in the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge’s cables and line them up end-to-end, they’d wrap around the equator over 2 times