An endless rope or cord may have been used in Du Shi's device of waterwheels that powered bellows of the blast furnace in the 1st century ( see Wind Power below ).
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Fisken also worked on the fly-rope system; an endless rope set into motion by the flywheel of the engine drove windlasses by which the plough or other implement was put in motion.
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During the season the sail ( s ) are wound up on the mast by this rotated by a crank in the cockpit which drives an endless rope on a collar attached to the lower part of the mast.
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Few memories of coming of age have the enduring sting of gym class : the sinking feeling of being the last player picked for a team, the valiant struggle to muster a chin-up or the failure to clamber even a few inches toward the ceiling up a bristly, seemingly endless rope.
