Assertion: pulley | /r/AtLocation | use
Facets:
value: for many centuries
type: TEMPORAL
value: before that time
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: An ironmonger challenged the Tangyes that the pulley had been in use for 30 years before Weston's patent but the judge, William Page Wood ruled in favour of the Tangyes because the engaging mechanism was substantially different from the one presented as evidence.
text: The Mesopotamians are credited with inventing the pulley, although it may have been in use in other places before that time.
text: All pulleys are simple mechanical devices that have been in use for many centuries, and historians believe humans were using simple static pulleys as far back as 1500 B.C.