Raising a slab of stone using a block-and-tackle mechanism, 1620. Artist: Unknown

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Raising a slab of stone using a block-and-tackle mechanism, 1620. Copperplate engraving of a treadmill powered by men lifting a slab of stone using a block and tackle. Apart from the treadmill (A), other labelled parts of the mechanism are the through tooth and pinion (C,B), and the worm and pinion (E,D.) Illustration from a 1620 German edition of Le diverse et artificiose machine (The various and ingenious machines), by Agostino Ramelli, first published in Paris in 1588.

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