Have you ever found yourself holding your breath while watching a crane position large steel beams atop a skyscraper construction project? You're not alone. Though catastrophic accidents are typically ...

Vertically elevating loads is a ubiquitous task in engineering, but prevailing over gravity while maintaining safety and accuracy calls for myriad approaches. Leveraging mechatronics for failsafe ...

The second of the series of lectures on "Hoisting Machines" will be given by Mr. S. T. Nelson of the Sullivan Machinery Company, this afternoon at 4 o'clock, in the Mineralogical Lecture Room of the ...

A worker was killed after sources say he was crushed by an "illegally created hoisting machine" while working in Brooklyn. Sources say the worker was crushed when the hoisting machine fell on top of ...

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