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  2. National Register of Historic Places listings in Eau Claire ...

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    Spans the Eau Claire R. between Galloway and Gibson Sts. Eau Claire: 442-foot steel Warren deck truss railroad bridge across the Eau Claire River, built in 1910 for the Soo Line by Minneapolis Steel and Machinery Co. The bridge follows an S-curve to join two parallel rail lines without any sharp bends.

  3. Knotted cord - Wikipedia

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    A knotted cord was a primitive surveyor's tool for measuring distances. It is a length of cord with knots at regular intervals. They were eventually replaced by surveyor's chains, which being made of metal were less prone to stretching and thus were more accurate and consistent. Knotted cords were used by many ancient cultures.

  4. Top (tool) - Wikipedia

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    A typical Top used in rope making. A top is a hand tool with an iron loop and hook used in the creation and splicing of rope. A Top is used to simultaneously hold a piece of rope while providing a hole to separate the "lays" (or strands) of synthetic or natural rope for splicing. A variation of a Top, the gripfid, is used for ply-split braiding ...

  5. Prehistoric ivory ‘baton’ puzzled experts for years. A new ...

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    The rope-making “baton” found at Hohle Fels Cave offers one way that the Aurignacian culture manufactured such an essential material, researchers said. Hohle Fels Cave is in southern Germany ...

  6. Perforated baton - Wikipedia

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    In some instances, a rope making tool. The British Museum "scope note" for "Perforated baton" says in 2011: "They are now understood to [be] implements used in the manufacture and throwing of spears." [12] Focusing only on what the objects were used for does not, however, account for why they were decorated.

  7. Rope - Wikipedia

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    Rope may be constructed of any long, stringy, fibrous material (e.g., rattan, a natural material), but generally is constructed of certain natural or synthetic fibres. [1] [2] [3] Synthetic fibre ropes are significantly stronger than their natural fibre counterparts, they have a higher tensile strength, they are more resistant to rotting than ropes created from natural fibres, and they can be ...

  8. Ancient canoe — oldest ever found in Great Lakes — recovered ...

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    About 3,000 years ago, indigenous people of the Ho Chunk Nation in the Lake Mendota region carved a dugout canoe, the Wisconsin Historical Society said in a news release on Thursday, Sept. 22. A ...

  9. Phoenix Manufacturing Company - Wikipedia

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    The firm also furnished building parts such as arches, plates, and columns. Many structures in the Eau Claire still feature slim support columns marked with the Phoenix name. [1] The company's largest success was with the Phoenix Log Hauler, a licensed version of a Lombard Steam Log Hauler. Over a hundred of these log haulers were produced.