Copper Wire

Copper Wire is a product manufactured in a Steelworks. Copper Ore is the material required to make it. It can be used as material for other products.
==History==
Around 1400 BC the inhabitants of Mycenae already manufactured filigree work for which they used very thin metal wire. Around 1300, wire came to be used in Egypt, as it was needed for the production of barbed fishing hooks. In 1766 the Englishman John Purnell got his commission for his method of roll wire pulling. At almost the same time, the Frenchman Fleur invented a similar technique. In the Middle Ages, the craftsmen of Augsburg and Nuremberg had already pulled wire manually by means of the so-called 'pulling iron'. Later, people used water-powered engines to do the same.  In 1813 technicians succeeded in pulling platinum wire to a diameter of about one thousandth of a millimetre.
==Did You Know That?==
The fact that copper is a good conductor has been well-known for some time. In the late 20s, people started using this quality in technology and commerce. All electronic devices, as well as means of telecommunication, use copper wire as a conductive material. Without copper wire, electric engines and telephones would not have been developed. Copper is on its way to becoming the most important metal of the decade.
Category:Steelworks
Category:1910
Category:Electronics Industry
Category:2nd Degree Product