When Peter Sluszka worked for the renowned bridge firm Steinman Boynton Gronquist & Birdsall in the 1980s, he saw the rehabilitation of corroded, ungalvanized cables-steel wire, coated with zinc and oiled-on the Williamsburg Bridge. In the 1990s, engineers tried wrapping bridge cables with neoprene to prevent corrosion. "I always thought that there had to be a better way," he says.
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