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1、 Machines for Lifting The strongest athletes can lift close to 455kg just off the ground , but few ordinary people can lift more than about 68kg . Early man soon developed machines for lifting large stones and tree trunks .A simple device is a single pulley wheel arranged as a hoist .But a rope arou
2、nd one pulley merely changes the direction of the pull and friction in the pulleys bearing in fact makes this simple machine less efficient than a straight pull .If the rope is wound around a wheel or cylinder to form a windlass ,a mechanical advantage is gained ,by means of which a man can easily l
3、ift more than his own weight . A small windlass can be driven by a hand crank -first used in the ninth century -and many early cranes and hoists used this principle.Screws and Pulleys Many basic inventions such as the screw and the pulley , cannot be credited to any one man .The Greeks were probably
4、 using screws by about 400 BC and by the time of Archimedes the screw certainly had various applications .Archimedes himself invented a type of pump consisting of a long helix in an upward-sloping tube; by turning a handle at the upper end the operator could screw water from the lower end of aspiral
5、to its upper end until it flowed out of the Nile Valley. In Roman and medieval times,screw presses were used for crushing olives and grapes.In the thirteenth century the French monk Villard de Honneecourt made a machine that used ascrew for lifting instead of pressing downward .Today known as the sc
6、rew jack,the device has many applications from lifting s car to change a wheel to jacking up whole buildings while a story is slipped underneath.Pulleys were also known also known to the ancient Greeks who used them to lower a religious dreama.By the time of Christ,Roman engineers were desiging and
7、making multiple pulley blocks for lifting and making multiple pulley blocks for lifting heavy loads.A 200t Egyptian granite obelisk,similar to the so called Cleopatras needles now standing in New York and London,was erected in ancient Rome using many pulley blocks and treams of slaves to provide the
8、 muscle power,Todays compact hoistsuse exactly the same principles.Hoists and Cranes Machines for lifting can also be made using gears to obtain mechanical advantage.With only horse power,sixteenth-century miners hauled loads of ore and other minerals.Later hoists using steam enginesand even modern
9、ones with electric motorsuse similar principles.Early cranes were merely rope-and-pulley hoists rigged between two or three wooden legs straddling the object to be lifted.Power was provided through a winglass or,for heavy loads,by a treadmill.The building projects and dock installations of the Middl
10、e A ges depended on such machines for lifting huge blocks of stone.Modern cranes are of teo main typesbridge cranes and jib cranes.both use a windlass with steel wire rope wrapped around a powered drum.A bridge crane gas a box-girder beam (called a gantry) running on long elevated tracks at each of
11、its ends . The hoisting system is carried in a trolley,which moves along the gantry bean.Bridge cranes are commonly set up above a working area to handle such loads as tree trunks and steel beans.A jib crane has a long boom that can swing horizontally to move the load side ways.Many such cranes can
12、also luffto control the reach of the crane by anging the boom more or less to the horizontal. A cantilever crane is a typical example .A cantitlever or tower crane is used in construcing high rise-buildings. Anchored to the ground or to the building itself,the crane is extended upward as the work pr
13、oceeds. Standard sections form the tower,which supports a horzontal bom whose weight, and that of the load,is counter-balanced by a block of concrete.Thehoist is in a trolley that can travel along the boom.Lifting PeopleSkyscrapers and high-rise apartments would have been impossible without elevator
14、s interconnecting the floors and giving access to the ground. In 1857 the American inventor Elisha Otis(18111861)installed a steam-powered elevator in a New York department store.Early elevators used the screw-jack principle,soon to be replaced in the 1870s by elevators using hydraulic pressure.Wate
15、r,oil,or other gluid is pumped to provide pressure against a piston,which is turu raissesthe load.Many building use a combination of hydraulics and pulleys which allows the elevator to go up higher.In the twentieth century-rise buildings need passenger elevators using electic motors that travel at m
16、ore than 365m perminute,or about two floors each second.In subway stations and large stores,there is a more or less continuous flow of people between various levels,Here the people-lifting problem is solved by using escalators,which are continuosly moving staircases basded on the conveyor belt princ
17、iple with an endless belt of steps.The original patents of 1891 were obtained and improved by the Oitis Elevator Company that, together with Westinghouse Elevators,developed the modern escalator in the 1930s.An escalator 1.25m wide moving at 27m per minute can carry about 8,000people an hour.Movings
18、 heavy loads Ordinary cranes, used in the construction industry or for loading ships,can lift weights of up to 200t.But consider the following problems: a prefabricated 1,500t section of s ship(such as the whole superstructure or the front part of the bow) has to be placed in its final position; a 6
19、,000t rocker has to be moved 5km to its launching site; a7,000tsection of a stadium has to be placed in a heavy load,and each has been solved.What are heavy loads?The abitity to move heavy loads is increasingly important to the engineering industries because the cost-saving of bulding assemblies on
20、a specific site before moving them to their final places is now accepted. But preafabricated structures are becoming larger and heavier.As new load-moving techniques have been developed, other industries have adopted them The word heavy is arbitrary, but for these purpose it includes loads ranging f
21、rom hundreds of tons to tens of thousands of tons.moving heavy loads has presented engineers with problems for thousands of years.Many suggestions have been put forward as to how stone was moved in the building of the pyraminds and Stonehenge.Certainly a method using tree trunks as rollers would hav
22、e been known then,and animal or human power could have provided the moving force.Man started with the lever and soon discovered the arrangement of the moving force ,the load ,and the fulcrum (pivot)that would be most useful in particular applications . Archimedes is reputed to have claimed , “give m
23、e a firm place on which to stand and I will move the earth .” He knew that given a lever long enough to gain the necessary mechanical advantage a small movement of the heaviest load could be obtained with a sufficiently large movement of even a small applied force.The Problems InvolvedMoving heavy l
24、oads involves reducing the friction underneath the load and providing sufficient force to overcome the friction remaining once the load is moving . To reduce friction ,rolling logs were used and later wheels of various types. Grease was also applied to ease the movement of the load, particularly in
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