<HTML>Well, I have a book written in the mid-nineties, and it has these exact pictures in it. They are dated to the mid-nineteen thirties.
I also saw the pictures on the episode of "In Search Of..." from the mid seventies, and that was my first introduction to this marvel that is in my back yard.
I repeat, this is like finding pictures of the granite sarcophagus in the King's Chamber, and every body now shouting, "Hey, we have PROOF that it really WAS just a tomb!"
Have a LITTLE more respect for my powers of observation, please.
Not to mention, Chris references these photos in "The Giza Power Plant". Pages, 117-118:
"Photographs of Leedskalnin at work show three tripods - made of telephone poles - that have boxes attached to the top. What is striking in the photograph is that the block of coral being moved is seen off to the side of the tripod. Perhaps Leedskalnin had moved the tripod after raising the block out of the bedrock. ..
Sounds like some of the same photos to me. You?
Rest assured, ladies and gentleman, there are NO pulleys, NO block and tackles, and NO chains used in LIFTING the weight I lifted in my garage 2 weeks ago. Period. (Well, except I did use bailing twine to weigh the individual blocks with the springscales I bought just for the occasion...lol).
As Chris has speculated here... the tripods were used to CONTROL the blocks, not lift them.
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