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The original French design was a single beam ladder with pairs of rungs projected outward on both sides of the beam. The
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The ladder was developed to access buildings via enclosed alleys, lightwells and yards to which other types of ladder could not be taken. A pair of men and two ladders could be used to scale a building to considerable heights, by climbing from floor to floor and taking the ladders up behind and
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