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Copper-clad steel

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31: 133:"After several years devoted to experimenting, organized the Duplex Metals Company. Prior to his discovery of the process under which this company operates in producing its copper clad, probably almost every other possible way of welding copper and steel together had been tried by Mr. Monnot, but found useless for the purpose." 117:
The first recorded attempt to make copper clad steel wire took place in the early 1860s. Although for over 100 years people had been suggesting various ways of uniting copper and steel, it was not until the period mentioned that Farmer and Milliken tried wrapping a strip of copper about a steel
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conductivity is nearly identical to a same-diameter solid copper conductor. It is most often used in antennas with long spans of unsupported wire, which need extra strength to withstand high tension which would cause solid copper or aluminum wire to break or stretch excessively.
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Another advantage is that smaller diameter copper-clad steel conductors may be used in coaxial cables, permitting higher impedance and smaller cable diameter than with copper conductors of similar strength.
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Due to the inseparable union of the two metals and the low amount of the more costly one, it deters theft since copper recovery is impractical and thus has very little scrap value.
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Tensile strength of copper-clad steel conductors is greater than that of ordinary copper conductors permitting greater span lengths than with copper.
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wire. American engineers in 1883 and again in the 1890s made attempts to produce a copper-steel wire, in one instance at least, by
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Installations with copper-clad steel conductors are generally accepted as fulfilling the legal specifications for a good
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John Ferreol Monnot, metallurgist, the inventor of the first successful process for manufacturing copper-clad steel.
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It is mainly used for grounding purposes, line tracing to locate underground utilities, drop wire of
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between 1900 and 1905. He had been very interested in the work of Mr. Martin in Paris.
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transmission lines with heavy copper-cladding a low impedance at
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copper, and only the center is higher impedance steel, the
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Copper-clad steel is occasionally used for making durable
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Copper coated welding wire has become common since wire
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industry that combines the high mechanical strength of
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Index

Copper clad steel

trademarked
Copperweld
bi-metallic
wire
steel
conductivity
corrosion
copper
telephone
cables
conductor
coaxial cables
CATV
RF
electroplating
John Ferreol Monnot
grounding
ground grid
lightning arresters
welding
radio antennas
HF
corrosion
tensile strength
material fatigue
impedance
skin effect
RF

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