  The geometry of parallelizable manifolds (i.e., teleparallelism) is
summarized in the language of local frame fields. Some problems in continuum
mechanics that relate to the couple-stresses that are produced in the bending
and twisting of prismatic beams and wires are then discussed. It is then shown
that by going to a higher-dimensional analogue of the geometry that one used
for one-dimensional deformable objects, one is basically using the methods of
teleparallelism in the context of the Cosserat approach to deformable bodies.
