{"id":3095,"date":"2016-03-26T22:18:58","date_gmt":"2016-03-26T21:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/?p=3095"},"modified":"2016-03-26T22:19:23","modified_gmt":"2016-03-26T21:19:23","slug":"human-powered-level-luffing-crane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2016\/03\/human-powered-level-luffing-crane.html","title":{"rendered":"Human Powered Level Luffing Crane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/level-luffing-lever-crane-1870.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3096\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3096\" src=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/level-luffing-lever-crane-1870.png\" alt=\"level luffing lever crane 1870\" width=\"829\" height=\"578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/level-luffing-lever-crane-1870.png 829w, https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/level-luffing-lever-crane-1870-500x349.png 500w, https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/level-luffing-lever-crane-1870-768x535.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 829px) 100vw, 829px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An French illustration from 1870 shows us the unusual ways in which hand-driving lifting devices were used in the period. Push carts almost two metres long were lifted to 9.2 metres by hand cranks via an 11.5 metre long luffing lever, also operated by a worker, and then pushed further along a wooden path to a tipping point. This daring construction was almost 18 metres tall.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Find the complete illustration <a href=\"http:\/\/gallica.bnf.fr\/ark:\/12148\/bpt6k55391309.image.f38.langFR\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Source: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/gallica.bnf.fr\/ark:\/12148\/bpt6k55391309\" target=\"_blank\">Portefeuille \u00e9conomique des machines, de l&#8217;outillage et du mat\u00e9riel<\/a>&#8220;, December 1870, Biblioth\u00e8que nationale de France. Text: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0953021912?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=lowtemagaz-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0953021912\">The History of Cranes (The Classic Construction Series)<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"pgllzfdsnlnshtahugth\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=lowtemagaz-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0953021912\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>&#8220;, Oliver Bachmann,1997.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;An French illustration from 1870 shows us the unusual ways in which hand-driving lifting devices were used in the period. Push carts almost two metres long were lifted to 9.2 metres by hand cranks via an 11.5 metre long luffing lever, also operated by a worker, and then pushed further along a wooden path to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[232,54,315],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3095"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3095"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3100,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3095\/revisions\/3100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}