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- Title
Reinventing the Egyptian Pulley.
- Authors
Blakely, Stephen; Blakely, Gregory
- Abstract
The Egyptian pulley incorporates several novel, useful features. The design involves only significant compressive loading of its two components. The materials of construction are high compressive strength materials - limestone, granite or copper. The groove around the cylinder prevents rope slippage, thereby protecting the rope from abrasion but critically also maintaining the cross-sectional integrity of the rope and its twist structure. The Egyptian pulley would have allowed the pullers to be positioned on the Pyramid's top stable, horizontal surface during construction.
- Subjects
PULLEYS; MATERIALS compression testing; COMPRESSIVE strength; GREAT Pyramid (Egypt); LIMESTONE; GRANITE; COPPER; PYRAMID design &; construction
- Publication
EXARC Journal, 2014, Issue 2, p10
- ISSN
2212-523X
- Publication type
Article