A modern mobile crane with outriggers. The latticed boom is fitted with a gib. A crane is a type of machine, generally equipped with a hoist rope, wire ropes or chains, and sheaves, that can be used both to lift and lower materials and to move them horizontally. It is mainly used for lifting heavy things and transporting them to other places.
The Optimist's Daughter is a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winning 1972 short novel by Eudora Welty.
In this Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2016 photo Sasha Obama, daughter of President Barack Obama, departs Nancy's Restaurant after working her shift there, in Oak Bluffs, Mass., on the island of Martha's Vineyard. (Boston Herald, Christopher Evans via AP) (Christopher Evans/Boston Herald via AP)