The phrase "a handrail of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a handrail that is part of or associated with something, such as a staircase or balcony.
Example: "The architect designed a handrail of polished wood to complement the modern staircase."
Alternatives: "a handrail made of" or "a handrail constructed from".
But the late-Victorian surge of stories told just for children's pleasure – Little Women, Black Beauty, Treasure Island, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Kidnapped, King Solomon's Mines – were illustrated as a matter of course, to give young readers a handrail of comprehension through the text and help them imagine what Blind Pew or the March sisters looked like.
Six days into a mission last May to repair and rehabilitate the Hubble Space Telescope, Michael J. Massimino, an astronaut, robotics expert and honorary New York City fireman, was getting ready to rip a handrail off the side of the fabled telescope.
Dr. Massimino achieved a kind of cosmic fame when, confronted with a stuck bolt that was blocking access to a broken spectrograph, he ripped a handrail off the side of the Hubble to get to it.
It all came to a wonderful high-tech, low-tech climax two years ago, when Michael J. Massimino, channeling his Uncle Frank fixing a car on Long Island, yanked a handrail off the side of the telescope to get at a broken spectrograph underneath it.
I remember holding onto a handrail on the outside of the Station, which was flying silently up the Atlantic, from south to north, and as we moved toward Europe I could see the terminator — the line between night and day — rolling up over the horizon ahead of us.
Not that this is much of a handrail to hang on to -- she knows that, and so do I -- but it is at least continuous, solid, reliable as a narrative in its turnings and better than no handrail at all".
Y. Takahashi et al. [10] reported the development of a Handrail which can propel the center of gravity of Parkinson subjects forward to assist standing-up motion.
While exposed to fore-and-aft floor vibration, the 12 male subjects were instructed to stand in two postures: holding a handrail in front of them lightly; and holding the handrail rigidly.
This week, commuters in Los Angeles were treated to the bizarre scene of a rat using the handrail of an escalator as a sort of treadmill.
Video has emerged showing a passenger sliding down the handrail of a London Underground escalator, a drunken stunt ending in a loud and painful thud.
"I once saw a dude get knocked out at the bottom of a handrail, so whoever went right behind him had to avoid the carcass laying there on the ground".
