To the left, the inn of the Red Horse showed its roof over a double row of elms, its dormer windows with their pulleys, while under the foliage the gateway was to be seen wide open.
Then we put pulleys in the roof right here above me, and the ropes go up into those pulleys down behind me, and then they're into a really stiff bungee system.
Ingenious inventors came up with gadgets like the rocking chair fan, a fan attached by belts and pulleys to your rocking chairs so that a pleasant breeze wafted every time you rock back and forth.
To create the illusion of low gravity, director Irving Pitchel attached the actors to piano wire run through a pulley system and controlled by an overhead crane.
Though simple elevators had existed for many centuries, these early devices consisted primarily of a platform suspended by a rope and pulley system which was lifted by an animal or by manpower.
So, this car works like a lever or a pulley by applying a small force to the wheels over a larger distance, the propeller can apply a larger force over a smaller distance.
Rather than using pulleys, a space elevator would consist of a ribbon-like cable extending from Earth's surface to an anchoring asteroid or other large mass in geosynchronous orbit.