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An overhead crane, featuring runways, bridge, and hoist in a traditional industrial environment. Overhead crane at the Skanska precast concrete factory in Hjärup, Sweden. Gantry-style overhead cranes of the Hainaut quarry in Soignies, Belgium. An overhead crane, commonly called a bridge crane, is a type of crane found in
John Landis Grove (January 26, 1921 – June 16, 2003) was an American inventor, industrialist and philanthropist. [1] He became known, primarily, for developing the hydraulic crane and access lift industries.
This is a list of people who died in the last 5 days with an article at the English Wikipedia. For people without an English Wikipedia page see: Wikipedia:Database reports/Recent deaths (red links). Generally updated at least daily, last time: 20:05, 21 January 2025 (UTC).
On March 15, 2008, a crane owned by New York Crane & Equipment collapsed during construction. Seven people were killed and 24 others were injured. [ 5 ] It was a luffing-jib tower crane manufactured by Favco that was 200 feet (61 m) tall at the time of the collapse.
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The roots of Demag date back prior to its formation, but became Märkische Maschinenbau-Anstalt, Ludwig A.-G in 1906 as the biggest crane building company in Germany employing 250-300 people. The company was a manufacturer of industrial cranes that included types like, bridge cranes, hoist (device), overhead cranes, Gantry crane to name
Konecranes is one of the largest crane manufacturers in the world [3] and it produces about one in ten of the world's cranes, [4] of which around 80% are for use in factories, the rest at ports. [5] Konecranes operates in over 50 countries and has about 16,500 employees.
Crane grew up in Patterson, New Jersey. His father was a builder-architect. Richard T. only had two or three years of formal schooling before embarking on a series of factory jobs, first in Patterson, and then New York City. He lost his job in the Panic of 1854, and moved to Chicago at the suggestion of his uncle, Martin Ryerson. [7]