{"id":705,"date":"2013-05-30T23:51:19","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T13:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wetshutter.com\/?p=705"},"modified":"2015-01-13T21:42:15","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T11:12:15","slug":"day-516-the-lamson-rapid-wire-system-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/?p=705","title":{"rendered":"Day 516, The Lamson Rapid Wire System II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This view of the The Lamson Rapid Wire System shows both its simplicity and complexity.<\/p>\n<p>To send the cart the clerk would pull down slowly on the pull-chord until the the launching frame was held under stretched elastic against a stop. On release the the launcher would send the cart flying along the wire to its receiving station where a similar mechanism was ready to initiate the return journey.<\/p>\n<p>I have not seen how the packages would have been attached or removed from the carts but can imagine something equally as imaginative.<\/p>\n<p>Next time you are strolling down Rundle Street and have a moment to spare, come up to The Writer&#8217;s Centre in the Malcolm Reid building, take your mind back 100 years and imagine would it would have been like.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Robert Rath, \u2018Day 516, The Lamson Rapid Wire System II&#8217; 1\/160s f\/2.8 ISO1600 70mm<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This view of the The Lamson Rapid Wire System shows both its simplicity and complexity. To send the cart the clerk would pull down slowly on the pull-chord until the the launching frame was held under stretched elastic against a stop. On release the the launcher would send the cart flying along the wire to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3997,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions\/3997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}