crane (engineering)

A machine which can lift and position loads. It essentially consists of an arm (or jib) carrying a pulley, attached to a post round which it can rotate, and with a rope which can be wound round a barrel. In antiquity, cranes might lift 5 tons, and be worked by a treadmill. Steam cranes in the later 1800s could often lift 20 tons, and some very large floating cranes now can lift 200 tons. They are much used in docks (with special designs used for container traffic), in construction (tower cranes), and in engineering (often as gantry cranes).

Crane or cranes may be:

Crane (bird), large long-necked birds Crane (machine), industrial machinery for lifting, etc Crane (martial arts), crane style martial arts Cranes (band), British goth rock band

Crane may be a surname: see Crane (surname)

Of a fictional character:

Alistair Crane, character on the soap opera Passions Denny Crane, lawyer on Boston Legal Frasier Crane, title character of the sitcom Frasier Fancy Crane, character on the soap opera Passions Fox Crane, character on the soap opera Passions Jonathan Crane, a.k.a the Scarecrow, a comic book villain in the Batman series by DC comics Julian Crane, character on the soap opera Passions Ichabod Crane, protagonist in Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Martin Crane, character on the sitcom Frasier Niles Crane, character on the sitcom Frasier Sheridan Crane, character on the soap opera Passions

Towns named Crane:

Crane, Indiana Crane, Missouri Crane, Oregon Crane, Texas Crane, Hillingdon

Crane may also refer to:

Crane Clan, of Samurai in the Legend of the Five Rings games Crane fly, a family of insects Crane Paper Company, supplier of paper for US banknotes Crane shot, in motion pictures, a shot taken with a camera mounted on a crane Crane School of Music, in Potsdam, New York Dallas Crane, alternative rock band from Melbourne, Australia USS Crane (DD-109), Wickes class destroyer, named after William M.