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Nathan Ball, a mechanical-engineering graduate student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, led a team that has invented a motorized pulley that will let paramedics and firefighters zip up the side of buildings sort of like Spider-Man.

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    kboy1 year, 8 months ago

    It may be even better for hoisting rescue/emergency equipment up buildings where the elevators do not work.

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