| Early in history man realized, that it was difficult | | | | Today the world is fortunate to have Bucket |
| and timely to move large loads of material. | | | | elevators. |
| Archaeologists, in their digs have found proof that | | | | It was in the sixties that the term 'heavy duty " |
| bucket elevators were used in ancient Egypt. It | | | | was attached to them. Today these elevators |
| was, of course much cruder than used today due | | | | are used throughout the world in all kinds of |
| to lack of machinery development. Their method | | | | industry. They are used to move large loads of |
| was using clay pots pulled by hemp rope. One can | | | | many different loose products. Things such as |
| imagine several thousand slaves filling the buckets | | | | grain, coal and other materials, that need to be |
| with water and pulling on the rope to move them. | | | | moved in volume, are using this method of |
| However this is one way they kept water | | | | transport. |
| transported to the fields or their master's houses. | | | | |