Note 261 — Chapter XXIII · PHYSICAL EDUCATION IN AMERICAN COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES.
Reading edition
The idea of the pulley weight is an old one. See an illustrated article in the Deutsche Turnzeitung, 1902, pp. 289-292, and Captain Chiosso’s “The Gymnastic Polymachinon” (London, Walton & Maberly; Paris and New York, H. Ballière, 1855).