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Cable wires.


South End Golden Gate Bridge - Detail 12b

You can just see the individual wires that make up the cable. The carbon steel wires were spun together into strands using a loom-type shuttle that moved back and forth to lay the wire into place. A cable contains 61 strands of 452 wires at a total of 27, 572 wires in each cable.