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A 13th century drawing of a treadmill crane. A treadmill crane (Latin: magna rota) is a wooden, human powered hoisting and lowering device.It was primarily used during the Roman period and the Middle Ages in the building of castles and cathedrals.
Nicola Zabaglia or Zaballi (Buda di Cascia, 1664 – Rome, 27 January 1750) was an Italian builder known best for his design of scaffolding, often used for decorating ceiling frescoes. Son of Alessandro, a capomastro (builder) for St Peter's Basilica. In 1686, he began to work with the Fabbrica of St Peter.
The mark of the scaffolding used for painting the ceiling is evident on the lower right of this lunette. The majority theory is that the ceiling's main frescoes were applied and painted in phases, with the scaffolding each time dismantled and moved to another part of the room, beginning at the chapel's west end. [40]
Charlotte scaffolding collapse Charlotte, North Carolina, United States: Construction site 3 dead, 2 injured 2023 Belvidere Apollo Theatre collapse: Belvidere, Illinois, United States: Theatre building 1 dead, 28 injured [75] 2023 2023 Marseille building collapse: Marseille, France Building 8 dead, 5 injured, 200 displaced 2023
In 1923, he moved to Rome with his brother to grow their sales and they found there a booming construction industry boosted by the rise of fascism. The brothers sold metal pipes and scaffolding kits. In 1931, Innocenti opened a large factory in Rome and diversified the company's ventures.
A gallows (or less precisely scaffold) is a frame or elevated beam, typically wooden, from which objects can be suspended or "weighed". Gallows were thus widely used to suspend public weighing scales for large and heavy objects such as sacks of grain or minerals, usually positioned in markets or toll gates.