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What innovation or invention made suspension bridges possible?

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the bessemer process
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Answer:

Several strands of metal twisted creating a durable string, that's the "wire rope", made of high carbon steel, and galvanized to improve corrosion resistance; a key structure together with "the web truss" when it comes to assembling suspension bridges;

but "The Bessemer process" was the fundamental industrial method for manufacturing and mass production of steel, invented by English engineer Sir Henry Bessemer.

Step-by-step explanation:

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