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Plate 169: Crane for lifting heavy weights
- 1588
Especially useful for lifting stones, mortar, and other construction material.
Mechanics: inertia chain; spur gear and lantern; lewis.
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Plate 16: Single-person-operated device for drawing water from a well
- 1588
The fountain is elaborately decorated with dolphins, their tails entwined.
Mechanics: hand crank; force pump; flap valve; double interrupted crown gears and lantern gear; spur gear and lantern; horizontal working beam.
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Plate 170: Crane for lifting heavy weights
- 1588
Mechanics: internal vertical treadwheel; spur gear and lantern; worm and worm gear.
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Plate 171: Crane for lifting heavy weights
- 1588
Especially useful in the construction of large buildings.
Mechanics: hand crank; worm and worm gear; lantern and crown gear; rope drive; flywheel.
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Plate 172: Crane for lifting heavy weights
- 1588
Mechanics: hand crank; spur gear and lantern; worm and worm gear; lantern and crown gear; flywheel; lewis.
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Plate 173: Two cranes for moving heavy weights
- 1588
Top: for lifting weights of any size from a ship or barge. Bottom: for moving and pulling heavy weights.
Mechanics: hand crank; spur gear and lantern; worm and worm gear; lantern and crown gear; flywheel.
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Plate 174: Crane for lifting heavy weights
- 1588
Mechanics: capstan bars; spur gear and lantern; lantern and crown gear.
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Plate 175: Crane for lifting and turning heavy weights
- 1588
Machine sits on four casters.
Mechanics: capstan bars; hand crank; worm and worm gear; lewis.
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Plate 176: Crane for lifting and turning heavy weights
- 1588
Entire machine rotates on a wheel in the base.
Mechanics: hand crank; spur gear and lantern; worm and worm gear; roller thrust bearing.
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Plate 177: Crane for lifting and turning heavy weights
- 1588
Entire machine rotates on a wheel in the base. Includes details of machine parts hidden within, pictured at right top and bottom.
Mechanics: hand crank; spur gear and lantern; worm and worm gear; ratchet; roller thrust…
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Plate 178: Machine for moving heavy weights
- 1588
Shows a column being moved.
Mechanics: hand crank; spur gear and lantern; worm and worm gear.
- Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
- Subject Machinery
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Plate 179: Machine for moving heavy weights
- 1588
Machine sits on casters. Shows a bell being moved.
Mechanics: hand crank; spur gear and lantern; worm and worm gear.
- Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
- Subject Machinery
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Plate 17: Device for raising water from a low place by river or canal current
- 1588
Mechanics: horizontal submerged waterwheel; force pump; conical valve; double interrupted crown gears and lantern gear; spur gear and lantern; horizontal working beam.
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Plate 180: Machine for moving heavy weights
- 1588
Mechanics: hand crank; Spur gears; worm and worm gear; lantern and crown gear.
- Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
- Subject Machinery
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Plate 181: Machine for moving heavy weights
- 1588
The machine's pulleys are enlarged and featured in the background.
Mechanics: hand crank; spur gear and lantern; worm and worm gear.
- Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
- Subject Machinery
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Plate 182: Machine for moving heavy weights
- 1588
Includes another view of the machine's gearing in the background.
Mechanics: hand crank; spur gear and lantern; worm and worm gear; angle crown gears.
- Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
- Subject Machinery
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Plate 183: Machine for moving heavy weights
- 1588
Includes another view of the machine's gearing in the background.
Mechanics: capstan bars; worm and worm gear; rope drive.
- Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
- Subject Machinery
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Plate 184: Fountain
- 1588
Pipes outwardly decorated like serpents spew water from the large vase into the basin. Can be fed by a distant natural spring or a hidden tank, provided either is at the same height as the fountain's vase. The inner…
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Plate 185: Portable fountain
- 1588
Cross-section shows inner system, which is identical to that used for the fountain on Plate 184. Syphon action in the descending, snake-shaped pipes starts the water-flow, and inner system relies on changes in air and…
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Plate 186: Fountain with chirping birds shown in elevation and cross-section
- 1588
Decorated with birds that pipe out song. Can be constructed at various scales and made fixed or portable. Inner system relies on changes in air and water pressure to keep the water circulating and the air moving through…
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Plate 187: Vase decorated with chirping birds
- 1588
Powered by concealed bellows or a person blowing into a pipe feeding into the base of the vase. Cross-section shows inner system, which relies on changes in air and water pressure to force air through hidden flutes to…
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Plate 188: Book wheel
- 1588
Allows user to consult a large number of books without moving or requiring a large table or amount of space. Purportedly useful to those who suffer from gout.
Mechanics: spur gears; epicyclic gear train.
- Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
- Subject Books and reading, Machinery
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Plate 18: Single-person-operated device for drawing water from a well
- 1588
Mechanics: hand crank; force pump; conical valve; double interrupted crown gears and lantern gear; spur gear and lantern; flywheel.
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Plate 190: Counterweight trebuchet
- 1588
For filling ditches and moats with barrels, bales, sacks, and debris, and for defending a city or fortress.
Mechanics: winch; trigger.
- Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
- Subject Engines of war, Catapult, Machinery