I£ considered size lor size, an ordinary thread of spider silk is decidedly tougher than a bar of steel. .An ordinary thread will bear'a weight of three grains. This is just about 50 per cent, stronger than a steel thread of the same thickness.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 151, 23 December 1935, Page 11
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