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Minecraft Club / How an Elevator Works

During Minecraft Club Darnell and I researched and learnt how an elevator works before building our own. We learnt that:

• Most elevators work just like a pulley.
• A very strong metal cable that is joined to the top of the elevator car and goes up through a sheave in an engine room above the elevator.
• The sheave is like a pulley wheel with grooves in it to help hold the rope tightly.
• On the other side of the rope is a weight, which is as heavy as the elevator car when it is half full.
• This balances the car so that not too much energy is needed to move it.
• Both the weight and the elevator car are held in place by guide rails at both sides of the elevator shaft (the tunnel that the elevator is in).

By Rylie 5/6M and Darnell 4/5M

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