Illustrations of history

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This magazine is for sharing artwork of historical events, places, personages, etc. Scale models and the like also welcome!

Generally speaking, actual photos of a historical item should go to !historyartifacts@lemmy.world

Photos of ruins should go to !historyruins@lemmy.world

Photos of the past should go to !HistoryPorn@lemmy.world

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[–] EvacuateSoul@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He's walking in a big wheel with a rope wrapping around a small wheel on his axle. That's the mechanical advantage.

[–] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Ah, yeah.

So would that work? Can that dude treadmill stones to the top of the apparently 50-60ft wall with that mechanical advantage all day?

Would it help if I whipped him while he did it?