The following year, Ludwig Blattner began work that eventually produced the Blattnerphone, enhancing it to use steel tape instead of wire.
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Tailor's tape measures may seem like a good substitute for steel tape, but they stretch after frequent use and can be inaccurate.
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For local detail surveys, tacheometers are commonly employed although the old-fashioned rectangular technique using angle prism and steel tape is still an inexpensive alternative.
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The wire or cable may be further protected with substances like paraffin, some kind of preservative compound, bitumen, lead, aluminum sheathing, or steel taping.
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The steel tapes ) to set the instrument exactly over a fixed survey marker or to transcribe positions onto the ground for placing a marker.
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After the officials scrambled to find an old-fashioned steel tape measure, Beamon's distance of 8.90 meters ( 29 feet, 2 1 / 2 inches ) was posted.
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These instruments included an alidade, dumpy level, theodolite, Gunter's chain ( which was replaced by a steel tape ) and a solar compass or a vernier compass.
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The next layer, known as the " tension member ", consists of either steel cable or flat steel tape, and provides the handrail with tensile strength and flexibility.
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The choice of Perron, 28, comes exactly one year after Dallas aerobics teacher Leisa Hart, also 28, was picked to star in the video line's Buns of Steel tapes.
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When cables must run where exposed to mechanical damage, they may be protected with flexible steel tape or wire armor, which may also be covered by a water-resistant jacket.