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His arrangement for the strands was a perfect example, she said, comparable to the water-shaft system he had worked out for the caisson, or his use of double tiers of anchor bars, which had been necessary to handle the number of strands required for such large cables the earlier bridges had had only seven strands to a cable, not nineteen.
The Great Bridge David McCullough 1972
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