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Fowlers Steam EngineFowlers patent engine and windlass for steam-ploughing
Crossbowman. Engraving by Serra (after a 14th century codex)Crossbowman reloading using windlass. Engraving by Serra (after a codex of the 14th century). Museo Militar, 1883. Later colouration. Date: 2019
The entrance of a street defended by a chain in grooves in posts and raised by a windlass at right. Copperplate engraving from Francis Groses Military Antiquities respecting a History of the English
TURNING A WINDLASSSix men turning a windlass, a mechanical device with a horizontal axis for hauling or hoisting Date: 1803
The Raising of Cleopatras Needle in London, 1878Engraving showing four scenes during the raising of the Cleopatras Needle, an ancient Egyptian obelisk, on the Victoria Thames Embankment, London, 1878
French Stone QuarryHorses drag a wagon-load of stone from a French quarry : a massive windlass is used to raise the stone from the workings to the road