8 years ago
The sky is the limit: human powered cranes and lifting devices
From the earliest civilisations right up to the start of the Industrial Revolution, humans used sheer muscle power, organisation skills and ingenious mechanics to lift weights that would be impossible to handle by most power cranes in operation today. The most powerful hand crane in history multiplied the force of its operator 632 times.
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