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While contemporaries struggled with airborne instability, Wilbur and Orville Wright used a system of pulleys to warp their aircraft's fabric wings, allowing a pilot to bank and turn with greater ease.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

His trips also revealed ornate loom pulleys and pottery, challenging stereotypes that African art is "limited to masks and figures", Oberhofer added.

From Barron's • Jan. 16, 2026

A system of pulleys allows children on the ground to hoist food to kids above.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 14, 2026

He writes his great-grandfather's "technical diagrams of ramps and pulleys suggest that he was also a trained engineer who couldn't resist a project".

From BBC • May 3, 2025

Automats and starfolk climbed rolling ladders and used pulleys to lift food high up to the ceiling cages.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton