130 years of STAHL CraneSystems GmbH –
From snake hoist to fully automatic crane

The electric pulley blocks and the paternoster


 

At the beginning of the 20th century, electrical energy increasingly replaces steam as motive power. R. STAHL soon perceives this second industrial revolution and in 1903 concentrates systematically on the production of electric pulley blocks. For the first time, these use a calibrated round link chain as load-bearing element.



Simultaneously, the company starts to design a type of lift which even today is still popular and inspires nostalgia and respect for the technology involved: the paternoster.

 



Picture top: First electric lifting block
Picture left: Paternoster lift build in 1908

Five years later, the first of these lifts built by Rafael Stahl is commissioned in the Graf Eberhard building in Stuttgart.

 
 

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