Theater of Machines: Lifting Devices (1725) - Page 16

Ch.		p.	Tab.
	A crane as used in Holland for loading and unloading ships	189	27
	A French crane for building with a very long crane arm or beak and treadwheel	192	28
	A very strong crane with 2 running wheels and a movable half-roof	194	29
	A ditto where only the beak is movable, in the Bremen style	196	32
	A ditto for building with a very strong housing and movable beak	198	33
	A very simple crane such as private individuals in Holland have on their houses	199	31
	A crane by Besson Jacques Besson, 16th-century inventor	200	—
8.	Machines with pulley blocks or sheave work
	How to raise a load with pulleys alone	202	35
	How to double power with two simple pulleys	203	—
	How to raise large loads by humans or horses during construction	204	—
	How to erect a large tripod by means of its pulleys	205	—
	Different types of stone tongs	206	—
	To reinforce pulley blocks with pulley blocks	208	37
	Different types of pulleys, and the gardener's invention likely referring to a specific mechanical technique of the time to reinforce pulley blocks	209	36
	Pulley blocks with two horn-windlasses	212	—
	" " the cross-windlass	213	—
	" " the windlass wheel and earth-winch.	214	—
	Besson's pulley block	215	37
	A very convenient lifting tool, common in Lower Saxony for cutting strong trees	216	38
	Furtenbach's bell-pull with pulley and windlass, together with the worm screw	217	39
9.	On machines with teeth and gears
	Machine with the spur wheel, pinion, flywheel, and crank	222	40
	Ditto with the spur wheel, pinion, and chain wheel	223	—
	Ditto with the spur wheel, comb wheel, and upright windlass	224	—
	Ditto with the running wheel	225	—
	The Furtenbachian hole-pull	226	41
	A large and strong pull with the running or tread wheel	228	42
	Furtenbach's erection-pull	229	43. 44
	Machine with two spur wheels and pinions, next to the toothed rack	231	45
	Ditto other type, which is finally reinforced with the screw	232	45
10.	Machines to lift loads by means of the screw.
	The so-called screw-set of the carpenters	234	45
	How to lift a large obelisk solely by screws	236	46
	How to underpin a massive column by means of screws, as here the Columna Antonina the Column of Marcus Aurelius in Rome	238	47
	A crane with a screw spindle, and how to improve it	240	48
	Lifting tool to raise a large load with the plain screw	242	—
	Windlass-pull with the worm screw	244	49
	Lifting tool with the shaft, worm screw, and double crank	247	50
	How the worm screw is applied to the crane in Berlin	248	—
	Pillar-winch with the worm screw	250	51
	Difference and calculation of the wagoner's winches	252	—
11.	On the erection of obelisks, and what transpired during this, what they are, etc.	253	—
	Process of how the Vatican one was erected	263	52
	Machine with which the Antonine Column was moved in 1705	269	53
12.	Machines for pulling oneself up or letting oneself down on a rope.
	An elevator, upon which a person can safely travel to and from one floor to another, improved	275	54
	Machines for comfortably letting oneself down on a rope, or climbing up. Different types	280	55
13.	On various machines.
	Two air machines for lifting loads: one through the blowing of the mouth, the other through evacuation	291	56
	A special machine used at Amsterdam for the unloading of small piece-goods	294	58
	Machine to bring a large load up a mountain easily	296	56
	A chair of Mr. Gartner, to let oneself be driven in a room, either by oneself or by a servant	297	—
14.	Special remarks and judgment on the calculation of force and time, and how much a man can do at most	299	—
	News of a completely new invention where one intends to do as much with three people as at most 19 people are capable of	302	—