Nathan Ball and the ATLAS Powered Rope Ascender (IMAGE)

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Nathan Ball and the ATLAS Powered Rope Ascender

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Just Hangin' Around -- MIT graduate student, Nathan Ball, hangs 50 feet in mid-air from his battery-powered rope ascender, a device that can raise more than 250 pounds at 10 feet per second. Ball is the 2007 winner of the $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize, an award that recognizes students at MIT who have demonstrated remarkable inventiveness.

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