United States Patent No. 152635 Pulley Blocks by B Hewitt S Goff Patented June 3 1874 Florine Stettheimer American Methodism 19th Century —

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United States Patent No. 152635 Pulley Blocks by B Hewitt S Goff Patented June 3 1874 Florine Stettheimer American Methodism 19th Century —United States Patent No. 152635 Pulley Blocks by B Hewitt S Goff Patented June 3 1874 Hewitt and Goff's 1874 schematic catches the pulley block mid anatomy, sheaves and shells laid open like a dissection, every pin and strap rendered with the patience of men who knew a gymnasium's rope and weight rigs lived or died by the geometry of a single wheel. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American archives the U. S. Patent and