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.
1 Breeana Puttroff, author of the Dusk Gate Chronicles series, has a new book Rumpelstiltskin's Daughter, scheduled to debut in September or October 2014, in which Rumpelstiltskin's story is told from another point of view, where the king makes the queen spin gold and Rumplestiltskin is not the villain. Breeana Puttroff, author of the Dusk Gate Chronicles series, has a new book Rumpelstiltskin's Daughter, scheduled to debut in September or October 2014, in which Rumpelstiltskin's story is told from another point of view, where the king makes the queen spin gold and Rumplestiltskin is not the villain.