Ever found yourself staring at a spinning roulette wheel, hoping your lucky number lands? Or watching those bingo numbers roll out, thinking, This is it, this is my moment? We’ve all been there, ...

Dice are about the simplest machines possible, and they’ve been used since before recorded history to generate random numbers ... case with this mechanical spinning dice. Or die.

A fixture within the anchorages called a strand shoe was used to secure the "dead wire" while a spinning wheel, or sheave, pulled a "live wire" across the bridge. Once it reached the opposite ...