"grinders"- chosen largely for muscle-power, their job is to hoist the sails and adjust them as quickly as possible by tensioning the sheets using the "coffee-grinder" winches. ....
building that many of the museum's intensive research programs into vertebrate paleontology are carried out. other areas of the museum contain equally fascinating repositories of life from thousands and millions of years in the past. the whale bone storage room is a cavernous space in which powerful winches...