When was the windlass invented?

The Chinese, or differential, windlass was invented in 1582.

a mining tool the involes a rocker (i think)

A windlass is a rope around an axle, used for winding and lifting. The rope and handle that lifts a bucket of water out of a well is a windlass. A: Windlass, noun, meaning any of various modifications of the wheel and axle employing a revolving cylinder, used for hoisting or hauling. verb intransitive, to use a windlass. verb transitive, to hoist by means of a windlass. also Windlass, noun, a circuitous movement, especially to intercept game; an indirect, crafty action. verb intransitive, to take a roundabout...

Windlass is made of a bucket,rope,and a long piece of straight, round, strong timber ...

A windlass is used to move heavy weights. They usually have a horizontal barrel that is turned with a belt or handle. ...

The windlass was not very successful in the 1850's because it only went into a hole...That is all ...

A windlass is used to move heavy weights - and is sometimes used on boats to raise an anchor. ...

a Chinese windlass or differential windlass is two drums of two different diameters turning on the same shaft with the rope unwinding from the smaller drum and winding on the large drum at the same time adding extra mechanical advantage . ...

A windlass is basically a rotating level. It has a crank that winds rope onto a spool. The spool is geared and able to withstand major amounts of pressure. ...

the whim,windlass,stamping baterries

A windlass shanty was a working song sung by sailors in the 19th century. This particular shanty was associated with raising and lowering the anchor and other repetitive tasks. ...

the pick was the first ever mining tool created. it was created to make digging easier for the miners when shaft mining. the windlass was the second created. it was invented for bringing bukets of dirt to the surface and then the buket would be winded back down under ground. the windlass also carried fully grown men. ...

Yes, it is because it has a wheel and a axle.

i think it is a wheel and axle

1849- California Gold Rush!

The windlass was one of the slower methods of mining for gold. Two people were required to operate it, one at the surface and one in the mine shaft. The person in the shaft filled a bucket with potential gold-bearing soil and rocks, and the person on the surface operated the windlass to wind up the bucket. The contents of the bucket were then sorted through, perhaps in a cradle or a pan. ...

yes it is because it helps when pulling things up and down

yes it is, as it has both and works with a wheel, so the answer is YES.

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anchor, anchor windlass, mooring lines, seamen. flag

Windsor means 'a landing place with a windlass'. The town of Windsor is situated on the River Thames, an important transport route. A windlass is a hoisting device using a horizontal roller which when turned, winds a rope around itself. Thus useful for hauling boats ashore ...

Bad idea, two different purposes, two different designs.

An anchor windlass, or a very large capstan with a catspaw at the base.

A windlass is a type of winch, fitted with a wildcat for hauling chain, and/or a gypsy for rope. Windlasses have horizontal drums or wheels for handling heavy anchor chains, hawsers, etc. From what I can tell, it comes from the Old Norse for winding things around a pole: Vin and ass. ...

The earliest windlasses were believed to have been used in one of the first penal collieries (coal-mining) in Tasmania. This colliery, which was run by convict labour, operated from 1843-1844, long before the goldrushes when windlasses were more common. the windlass was used to draw water up out of the mines. ...