An old engraving of a bridge, overhead or travel crane of the 1800s, found in factories, foundries and yards. It is from a Victorian mechanical engineering book of the 1880s. The crane consists of two parallel rails seated on longitudinal I-beams attached to opposite steel columns by means of brackets. The traveling bridge spans the gap. A hoist, the lifting component of a crane, travels along the bridge. If the bridge is rigidly supported on legs running on two fixed rails at ground level, the crane is called a gantry or goliath crane. This crane has a steam engine providing power.
An old engraving of a bridge, overhead or travel crane of the 1800s, found in factories, foundries and yards. It is from a Victorian mechanical engineering book of the 1880s. The crane consists of two parallel rails seated on longitudinal I-beams attached to opposite steel columns by means of brackets. The traveling bridge spans the gap. A hoist, the lifting component of a crane, travels along the bridge. If the bridge is rigidly supported on two or more legs running on two fixed rails at ground level, the crane is called a gantry or goliath crane. This crane has a steam engine providing power. 1876 Sampson Moore in England designed and supplied the first ever electric overhead crane, which was used to hoist guns at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich, London.
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Location: UK
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