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There are various forces enacted upon telegraph poles, such as high winds, rain, ice and frost etc. These forces pull on the telegraph pole, causing a danger of toppling or collapsing. It's not obvious to most people, who more than like consider the telegraph pole a pretty simple object, but there is a great deal of mathematics and engineering that goes into supporting a telegraph pole to enable it to stay upright and continue supporting of information highways and infrastructures. When the company responsible for installing telegraph poles undertakes a given project it must consider the route to be taken and the forces that will be exerted on the various telegraph poles along the route and what kinds of support they will need. The main force that pulls on a telegraph pole is the cables themselves, i.e. the telephone cables, electricity cables and any other utility cables it carries. |
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