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Gravity powered elevators?
Image provided by: Rosie Palmes
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Nope...just slides. Looks like fun dosen't it?!
Tate Modern - Britain's national museum of international modern art.
London, United Kingdom
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The horizontal roped-hydraulic driving machine
at the Winchester House in San Jose, California, U.S.A.
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Another view...
Is the Crosby Clip above the counterweight installed backwards?
"Never saddle a dead horse..."
From the Crosby Clip web site
This is the correct way...
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The top landing for a very crude hand elevator in Cancun, Mexico
Image provided by: Pat Minuters
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As you can see it is roped 2:1...
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Is that a shark down there in the "water buffer?"
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A winding-drum I would guess...somewhere in Norway
Image provided by: Hans Liddle
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A screw column machine used to lift performers to the stage at the Aquarius Theatre...
Hollywood, California, U.S.A.
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Another view...
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The main disconnecting means...I remember this elevator company.
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The continuous-pressure operating device...
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A modern screw column machine...
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A beautiful Kone observation elevator named "Bigo" in Genoa, Italy
Please note that the four suspension ropes enter through the bottom of the car...
Image provided by: Antonio Bellagio
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A better view of the four suspension ropes and the two car guide "rails"...
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The top of the "hoistway"...
Looks like it includes an anemometer for checking the wind speed and stopping devices on the "rails".
I don't suppose that you would want to be in this car if it was too windy.
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You can see how the suspension ropes pass through the car, over the sheaves, and back down to the car top...
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The bottom landing...or should I say the only landing?!
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The entire "hoistway"...
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The entire structure...but what kind of a driving machine is employed?
I do not know...but it is a beautiful conveyance!
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A beautiful hand elevator in Castleberry Hill, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A.
I believe that's a hoistway gate counterweight in the upper left-hand corner...
Image provided by: Faye Taylor
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The scenery lift at The Arts Centre in Melbourne, Australia
The State Theatre stage is actually a few stories below ground
so this scissor lift is used to lower trailers into the building.
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Lifting kettles of food with a lever hydraulic driving machine - Palghar, India
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An old hand elevator inside the Enerdyne in Suttons Bay, Michigan, U.S.A.
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A "Giant" gear...
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Does anyone know this manufacturer?
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Please note how the wooden sheave is attached to the iron sheave...why?
Is the wooden sheave part of the braking or driving mechanism?
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I wonder how old this rope is...probably too old!
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A hand elevator somewhere in San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
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