Below is the famous photo of the "gadget", America's first nuclear bomb, being raised to the top of a 100 foot tower at the Trinity Test Site at Alamagordo, New Mexico in July 1945.  The cables attached to the top of "gadget" are suspended from an electric hoist manufactured by Shepard-Niles in Montour Falls, NY.

Following is a portion of an e-mail I received from Bill Elmore, a physicist at Los Alamos, who was originally from Montour Falls:  "I helped set up some electronic equipment near the tower that held the Trinity test of the first atomic bomb. I remember walking over to the base of the tower to look  at the hoist, I think it was called a Lift About, and read it was made by the Shepard Crane and Hoist Company, or whatever its name was then, in Montour Falls, NY. I remember telling this to someone in Montour Falls when I was visiting my mother after the war."