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Plate 143: Bridge for crossing a city or fortress moat
- 1588
Accordion folded bridge sections can be quickly and unexpectedly rolled out and brought up to the wall.
Mechanics: capstan bars; hand crank; worm and worm gear; lantern and rack; roller guides.
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Plate 142: Bridge for crossing a city or fortress moat and scaling its wall
- 1588
Mechanics: winch; worm and worm gear; lantern and rack.
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Plate 140: Bridge for crossing a city or fortress moat and scaling its wall
- 1588
Plate oriented in landscape format. Barrels of earth and debris can be thrown into the moat via an opening in the front of the machine as a decoy to distract from the doubled-over bridge, which can be unfolded quickly…
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Plate 141: Bridge for crossing a city or fortress moat and scaling its wall
- 1588
Mechanics: hand crank; worm and worm gear; lantern and rack; roller guides.
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Plate 139: Machine for removing excavated earth from a ditch
- 1588
Mechanics: hand crank; chain of buckets.
- Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
- Subject Machinery
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Plate 138: Machine for removing excavated earth from a ditch
- 1588
Mechanics: horse whim.
- Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
- Subject Machinery
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Plate 137: Mill to run bellows in double iron forge, powered by canal current
- 1588
The parallel reciprocating bars used in this device are also known as stangenkunst.
Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; machine crank; bell crank; parallelogram linkage; parallel reciprocating bars.
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Plate 136: Timber sawmill to cut wood and make boards, powered by canal current
- 1588
Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; machine crank; bell crank; roller guides.
- Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
- Subject Water-power, Sawmills, Machinery
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Plate 134: Sawmill to cut marble and stone, powered by horse
- 1588
Mechanics: horse whim; machine crank; spur gear and lantern; lantern and crown gear; parallelogram linkage.
- Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
- Subject Sawmills, Machinery
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Plate 135: Double mill to grind grain and cut stone, powered by channel current
- 1588
Mechanics: overshot waterwheel; horizontal waterwheel; machine crank; spur gear and lantern; worm and worm gear; lantern and crown gear.
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Plate 133: Windmill
- 1588
Complete structure can be rotated by rudder to catch optimal wind. Sails can be stopped and secured. Contains mechanism to lift grain sacks.
Mechanics: windmill (post mill); lantern and crown gear.
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Plate 132: Windmill
- 1588
Cap with sales can be rotated by rudder to catch optimal wind.
Mechanics: windmill (tower mill); lantern and crown gear; roller thrust bearing.
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Plate 131: Grain mill powered by alternate counterweights, initially raised by two men
- 1588
Mechanics: winch; falling weight; spur gear and lantern; lantern and crown gear; ratchet.
- Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
- Subject Mills and mill-work, Machinery
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Plate 130: Grain mill powered by counterweights raised by two men
- 1588
Mechanics: capstan bars; falling weight; lantern and crown gear.
- Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
- Subject Mills and mill-work, Machinery
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Plate 129: Portable grain mill with iron grinding wheels
- 1588
Mechanics: hand crank; slotted-head screw.
- Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
- Subject Mills and mill-work, Machinery
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Plate 80: Single-person-operated device for drawing water from a very deep well
- 1588
Mechanics: horizontal spoked treadwheel; bucket; spur gear and lantern; roller shaft bearing.
- Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
- Subject Wells, Machinery
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Plate 79: Single-person-operated device for drawing water from a very deep well
- 1588
Mechanics: inertia chain; bucket; spur gear and lantern; roller shaft bearing.
- Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
- Subject Wells, Machinery
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Plate 78: Single-person-operated device for drawing water from a very deep well
- 1588
Mechanics: bucket; internal spur gear and lantern pinion; lantern and crown gear; roller thrust bearing.
- Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
- Subject Wells, Machinery
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Plate 77: Single-person-operated device for drawing water from a very deep well
- 1588
Mechanics: hand crank; bucket; flywheel.
- Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
- Subject Wells, Machinery
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Plate 76: Single-person-operated device for drawing water from a very deep well
- 1588
Mechanics: internal vertical treadwheel; bucket; roller shaft bearing.
- Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
- Subject Wells, Machinery
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Plate 75: Single-person-operated device for drawing water from a deep well
- 1588
Mechanics: hand crank; bucket; flywheel.
- Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
- Subject Wells, Machinery
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Plate 74: Single-person-operated device for drawing water from a well
- 1588
Mechanics: horizontal spoked treadwheel; conical valve; worm and worm gear; lantern and crown gear; motion converter (rotating to linear).
- Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
- Subject Wells, Machinery
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Plate 73: Windmill for drawing water from a well
- 1588
Cap with sales can be rotated by rudder to catch optimal wind. This windmill uses a paternoster pump, named for its resemblance to a rosary. Also known as a "rag and chain" pump or a "rubber bucket chain" pump.
…- Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
- Subject Wind power, Pumping machinery, Wells, Windmills, Machinery
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Plate 72: Device for raising water from a low place by canal current
- 1588
Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; force pump; chain equalizer; roller guides.
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Plate 71: Single-person-operated device for drawing water from a well
- 1588
Mechanics: hand crank; interrupted lantern and racks; chain equalizer; roller guides.
- Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
- Subject Wells, Machinery
