"For that, we decided we needed to take some sort of crane device," he said, "just to help give the sense of the epic journey the frog was taking".
But the team that created the Sky Crane — a device of disciplined bravado born of a decade of close collaboration — is gone.
Sold with a range of brass wheels and pulleys, gears and shaft collars, any number of complex mechanisms could be dreamt up – from bridges to cranes, to devices to ambush your unsuspecting sister – by enthusiastic children eager to "make and know", from where Hornby is thought to have derived his brand name "Meccano" in 1907.
This paper shows the development of an expert system for the selection of materials to be used in the construction of the main structure of a crane-like device for transporting persons with physical disabilities.
In the late 20th century one of the most renowned Russian trapeze acts, "The Flying Cranes," used dramatic devices to tell the story of fallen Soviet war heroes whose souls are transformed into cranes.
To get the proper angle for certain pictures of the skyscraper, Hine had himself swung out over the city streets in a basket or bucket suspended from a crane or similar device.
Firefighters searched for the missing woman for several hours with listening devices, cranes and cameras, and the authorities confirmed just after 9 p.m. that the body of a 40-year-old woman had been uncovered.
A crane with a device called a muncher on its end began the delicate demolition early today, at first trying to grab small chunks and then hitting the wall to try to dislodge larger sections.
At the shipyard in Saint Nazaire the superstructure sticks out like a sore thumb, a great tower surrounded by cranes and lifting devices that signal to the town that the helicopter carrier is moored here, in the oily waters of the naval dockyard.
Each whooping crane has a tracking device, and three of the birds are outfitted with collars that transmit G.P.S. readings by satellite.
As an essential part of the boom crane system, rotary hook device plays an important role in adjusting the skew angle of the payload to match the skew angle of vessels or container trucks.
