Comments by "Mighty One" (@mightyone3737) on "Real Engineering" channel.

Possible explanation for that seemingly inexplicable steel strength figure, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_drawing The process isn't relevant for bars or other products, as they are too hard to draw, coupled with the fact that getting to the strongest strengths possible means numerous careful annealing treatments, so this is not really a cheap process to take to the extremes. Nobody quotes the numbers they can achieve as the strength of 'steel', because that is referring generally to structural steel sections, not extremely thin wires. These would also be quite hard, though not proportionate the way hardened steel's strength and hardness correlate. All that said, it's still not as good as the more modern options.
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