as the machine pulls core yarn up through the center. More from Tech These ropes are made from thousands of nylon fibers that are finer than human hair, but stronger. To make rope, yarns wind ...

His quest was to create a unique drum machine, inspired by a Soviet auto-dialer that used rope core memory for number storage. Rope memory is the read-only sibling to magnetic core memory ...

He built this rope braiding machine, which uses 16 bobbins, with help from his brother [Jed]. Ideas for projects always come from funny places. [David] came up with this one after finding a rope ...

The rope made here has been used on the Cutty Sark ... Three of these formed strands are then moved onto the closing machine. This wraps each of the cables together along the ropewalk.