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The Daily Dispatch: October 25, 1861., [Electronic resource], Marvelous Exhibition of human power. (search)
Marvelous Exhibition of human power.
--Dr. G. B. Winship. at the close of a lecture delivered in Brighton last week.
while standing upon a staging at an elevation of about 8 or 10 feet from the floor, lifted and sustained for a considerable time, and without apparent difficulty a platform suspended beneath him, on which stood 12 gentlemen, all heavier individually than the Doctor himself, and weighing inclusive of the entire apparatus lifted with them.
nearly 1,900 pounds avd.--In the performance of this tremendous feat.
Dr. W. employed neither straps, bands, nor girdle — nothing, in short, but a stout oaken stick, fitting across his shoulders, and having attached to it a couple of rather formidable looking chains--Boston Herald.