- The
windl**** /ˈwɪndləs/ is an
apparatus for
moving heavy weights. Typically, a
windl**** consists of a
horizontal cylinder (barrel),
which is
rotated by...
- Tangye's autobiography, the
Weston differential pulley evolved from the
Chinese windl****, with an
endless chain replacing the
finite length of rope. He claimed...
- and
visual arts to the
Chinese imperial court, and
carrying on
significant inter-cultural and
philosophical dialogue with
Chinese scholars, particularly...
-
Soybeans and
Soyfoods in
China and Taiwan, and in
Chinese Cookbooks, Restaurants, and
Chinese Work with
Soyfoods Outside China (1024 BCE to 2014). Soyinfo...
-
included multiple mechanical devices he did not invent, such as the
Chinese windl****. He
received a 40
guinea prize for
submitting a
model of a
harbor crane...
- and
employ gear and
pulley arrangements – levers, belt hooks, pulleys,
windl****es and
cranequins – to
overcome very high draw weight.
These potentially...
-
mechanism is
unique in that it is
driven by a flat-link
chain connected to a
windl****. The
mensa itself was a
sliding plank (similar to that on the gastraphetes)...
-
Western mechanical devices translated into
Chinese by the
Jesuit Johann Schreck (1576-1630), and the
Chinese scholar Wang
Zheng (王徵 1571–1644). This book...
- used to lift weights. This is
thought to have been in the form of the
windl**** which consists of a
crank or
pulley connected to a
cylindrical barrel that...
- English: Ken Liu, in 2015 and 2017, for
translations of two
works from
Chinese; and Rita Barisse, in 2019, who was
retroactively noted as the translator...
