pulley

type of simple machine; wheel on an axle or shaft fixed in a frame; used to change of direction of a cable
Thing general Q48378
pulley
Lands Department, Survey Office, Cartographic Branch, Photographic Section · Public Domain · Wikimedia
Press Enter · cited answer in seconds

pulley

Summary

pulley ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (576 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • pulley's video is recorded as Блок и ворот.webm[2].
  • pulley's image is recorded as Queensland State Archives 6402 At shipyards Kangaroo Point April 1959.png[3].
  • pulley's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85108987[4].
  • pulley's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 11980848q[5].
  • pulley's subclass of is recorded as simple machine[6].
  • pulley's Commons category is recorded as Pulleys[7].
  • pulley's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 23039[8].
  • pulley's has part is recorded as wheel[9].
  • pulley's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/05zc1[10].
  • pulley's Commons gallery is recorded as Pulley[11].
  • pulley's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300024574[12].
  • pulley's PSH ID is recorded as 10736[13].
  • pulley's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 156012[14].
  • pulley's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0133335[15].
  • pulley's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[16].
  • pulley's described by source is recorded as Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[17].
  • pulley's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[18].
  • pulley's described by source is recorded as Sytin Military Encyclopedia[19].
  • pulley's described by source is recorded as Sytin Military Encyclopedia[20].
  • pulley's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[21].
  • pulley's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[22].
  • pulley's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[23].
  • pulley's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as technology/pulley[24].
  • pulley's different from is recorded as sheave[25].
  • pulley's different from is recorded as block and tackle[26].

Why It Matters

pulley ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (576 views/month).[1] pulley has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] pulley is known by 57 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

📑 Cite this page

Use these citations when quoting this entity in research, articles, AI prompts, or wherever provenance matters. We aggregate Wikidata + Wikipedia + authoritative open-data sources; the stitched, scored, cross-referenced view is what 4ort.xyz contributes.

APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). pulley. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/pulley
MLA “pulley.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 10 Apr. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/pulley.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_pulley_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{pulley}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/pulley}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): pulley — https://4ort.xyz/entity/pulley (retrieved 2026-04-10)

Canonical URL: https://4ort.xyz/entity/pulley · Last refreshed: