Farrow's military encyclopedia : a dictionary of military knowledge . tings, workmen, etc., in mines and foundries. Avery primitive resembles themodem capstan, is used in the Convent of St. Cath-arine, at the foot of Mount Sinai, to raise travelersto a door in the second story. This is a somewhatinconvenient and tedious operation, but is used in aland where robbers go on horseback. It is alsoworthy of remark, that the people of the land haveno idea of the value of time, and so set six men tohelp another in at the door. The obelisks in ancientEgypt may have been raised
Farrow's military encyclopedia : a dictionary of military knowledge . tings, workmen, etc., in mines and foundries. Avery primitive resembles themodem capstan, is used in the Convent of St. Cath-arine, at the foot of Mount Sinai, to raise travelersto a door in the second story. This is a somewhatinconvenient and tedious operation, but is used in aland where robbers go on horseback. It is alsoworthy of remark, that the people of the land haveno idea of the value of time, and so set six men tohelp another in at the door. The obelisks in ancientEgypt may have been raised Viy gradually lifting theapex and scotching up by introducing earth beneaththem. The Stonehenge blocks were very probablyraised in the same way. When Chersiphon builtthe Temple of Ephesus. in the time of Amasis ofEgypt, lie raised the architrave by surrounding thecolumns with liags of earth, which served as an in-clined plane. HOISTING APPARATUS.—In designing and build-ing machinery for hoisting ami transferring lightloads, many of the same problems are presented. Fin. occur in the construction of heavy cranes,and the exiierieuce gained in one is available in theother. Too much has heretofore been left to ruleof tnunib jiracticein the designing cf light hoistingniacliinery, and frecpient accidents to life and limbstill needlessly occur from continued to- HOISTING APPARATUS. 39 HOISTING APPARATUS. old types iif niiicliiiics in wliirli wifely, bolli of per-son and load, (lei)ends upon I lie care mid iiilelli^eiHeof the operator. It is possilile to so coiistriiel liaiid-lioisting inacliinery that aeeideiils arisiiii; from nirc-lessness in its use are praeti<-idly iuipossilile. Sueliconstruction involves no saeritiee of simplicity orIfflciency. and no material increase in civst. To ad-here to the old. therefore, is loassumeneeilless risksto property and unjustitialih risks to human risks referred to chielly from two causes ;Jir^t, a deficienc
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