Twisted Strands - Lesson Plan: Simple Machines and Ropemaking in the Charlestown Navy Yard  (PDF)

Boy Scout Trail - Ropemaking (PDF)

Ropery at Chatham Dockyard - Photo gallery

Archeologists Find 40,000 year-old ropemaking tool, SciNews Magazine

How the Inca Leapt Canyons - Rope suspension bridges, New York Times

Lost Knowledge: Ropes and Knots - Low-Tech Magazine

Seilerei Kislig - Working ropewalk at Winterthur, Switzerland

​The Ropewalk - by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Ropewalk: The evolution of rope - How Bill Hagenbuch preserved the history
of his company through the making of a documentary film, by Duante Beddingfield for Wire Rope News (PDF)

The Story of Rope - By Bill Hagenbuch for Ropecord News (PDF)

Bibliography of Cordage and Cordage Making - The Cordage Institute (PDF)

​The Cordage Institute

Engineers Club of Dayton Foundation

Print References:

Edwards, Ph.D., Bradley C., and Eric A. Westling. The Space Elevator. Houston, TX: BC Edwards, 2002, 2003

Evans, Sterling. Bound in Twine: The History and Ecology of the Henequen-Wheat Complex for
Mexico and the American and Canadian Plains, 1880-1950. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2007.www.tamu.edu/upress/BOOKS/2007/evans.htm

Forward, Robert L., and Robert P. Hoyt. "Space Tethers." Scientific American February, 1999: 86-87.

Kissell, Mary Lois. Yarn and Cloth Making: An Economic Study. New York: MacMillan, 1918.

Morison, Samuel Eliot. The Ropemakers of Plymouth. 1950. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1950.
 
Plymouth Cordage Company, The Story of Rope. Plymouth, Mass.: 1916.
 
Robinson, BB, and FL Johnson. "Abaca: A Cordage Fiber." USDA Agric Monograph 21(1953)
 
Sanctuary, Anthony. Rope, Twine and Net Making. Bucks, UK: Shire Publications Ltd, 1980
 
Tyson, William, Rope: A History of the Hard Fibre Cordage Industry in the United Kingdom. London: Wheatland Journals Ltd., 1966.

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