Talk:Wire

Primary wire

Unless it lacks notability, "primary wire" should be described in the 'Varieties' section. ZFT (talk) 03:57, 9 September 2020 (UTC)

History in UK

Taken from a usage viewpoint, the earliest use of hand carders is in the Luttrell Psalter (1320-40, Linolnshire). Recent excavations in the Amgidy valley suggest the Tintern wireworks were contemporary with the Abbey, per private correspondence with Will Davies, the CADW Inspector, who cites "early post-mediaeval". Recent discovery of culverting indicate the 1568 works expanding the existing mill runs to become leats were for a new artillery foundry closely connected with the Ordnance Board base at Monmouth, itself dating from at least 1415 (Shakespeare, Henry V): the wire works were older. The suggestion it was a Royal monopoly in the 1463 Edward IV interdiction of the export of wool combs is coherent with this.

wire vs wire rope

Overhead power "wire".

I think it is misleading to call this picture from an overhead line conductor a "wire" as it is a "wire rope" and the whole rope consists of several wires. --Gunnar (talk) 06:22, 10 October 2021 (UTC)

@Wtshymanski: "they don't call them ropes in this context", you wrote in . As far as I know, a conductor rope ("5.6. Connection of the conductor rope to the cable bolt (A) or to the conductor rod (C)", p. 11) is a wire rope made of conductive material, which is mechanically flexible. There is a difference between a "wire" and a "wire rope", as the first one only has one filament, whereas the latter has many many independent ones Wire rope#History adding redundancy and increasing reliability. --Gunnar (talk) 07:29, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

Sounds like a bad translation. What do English-speaking sources say? --Wtshymanski (talk) 04:43, 28 October 2021 (UTC)

As a native English speaker, I’d call that photo “cable”, though rope is what it is called in some industries. What it isn’t is wire: this entire article does not contain one single image of an actual single wire. — tooki (talk) 17:02, 18 April 2026 (UTC)