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..."stripper" or cleat to maintain tension. These are known as "self-tailing" winches.<ref>Mark Smith. The Annapolis Book of Seamanship. 1999 Simon & Schuster</r ...cables for a [[pontoon bridge]] across the [[Hellespont]] in 480&nbsp;BC. Winches may have been employed even earlier in [[Assyria]]. By the 4th century BC, ...

* Winches aboard [[oceanography|Oceanographic]] [[research vessels]] and pipelaying b * Winches aboard [[fishing vessels]]. ...

...enerators, sometimes not only to provide auxiliary power for lights, fans, winches, etc. but also indirectly for main [[propulsion]]. With electric propulsion ...

* using high-altitude solar-powered balloon platforms supporting winches to raise and lower solid masses slung underneath them,<ref>{{cite web | tit * using winches supported by an ocean barge to take advantage of a 4&nbsp;km (13,000&nbsp;f ...