Currying Weight

A senes of experimente miule. in Frnnee shows approximately that the heaviest j load a man of srength can carry for a i short diatanoe íh 819 pounds. All a man ' oan oiu-ry habitually, ih, fov exajaáe, a soldier his knapsack, walking im á level groun(l,;i8 132poimcl8- un extreme l?ad, it wonld seem - oí he oftS oafry un aggregato Of 1,518 pouttJa over 8,200 feet as aday'swork, unilCTlikeciroiimstiinccs. i If hc ascend ladders or sta ir, as do hotl(üimers, then le eau cnrry bilt 121 pounds continuouHly, and liis dnjv's work caimot exceed 1,232 pounds raised 3,200 ieet Ligli.