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Marianna

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Marianna asked in Science & Mathematics Engineering · 1 decade ago

What is the -proper- technical name of that cable?

I mean the one that has a flexble, and axial movable wire inside a spring-wound wire.

Used as (mechanical) remote camera trigger, or in hand brakes on bicycles, or for (vehicle) choke activation, and so on....

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A bowden cable, invented by and named after Ernest Monnington Bowden (1860 to 1904).
Source(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowden_cable

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