2-690-953 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Normans Building a Cathedral', c1934. Illustration showing prepared stones being lifted by means of a crane worked by man-power. The accompanying text explains that 'ropes passing over pulleys were wound on to a drum by the turning of a great wheel', powered my men inside a treadmill. From The Romance of the Nation, Volume One, edited by Charles Ray. [The Amalgamated Press, Ltd., London, c1934]