A gantry is an overhead bridge-like structure supporting equipment such as a crane, signals, or cameras.

Devices and structures

* Gantry (medical), cylindrical scanner assembly used for medical 3D-imaging or treatment * Gantry (transport), an overhead assembly on which highway signs or railway signals are posted * Gantry (rocketry), the frame which encloses and services a rocket at its launch pad * Gantry crane, a crane having a hoist fitted in a trolley for parallel movement **

Rubber tyred gantry crane A rubber tyred gantry crane / RTG (crane), or sometimes transtainer, is a wheeled mobile gantry crane operated to ground or stack intermodal containers. Inbound containers are stored for future pickup by drayage trucks, and outbound are stored f ...

, a mobile gantry crane used in intermodal operations * Gantry tower or anchor portal, a structure commonly found in electrical substation or transmission line * Scaffolding, occasionally referred to as a gantry when used as a support framework

Places

Gantry Plaza State Park Gantry Plaza State Park is a state park on the East River in the Hunters Point section of Long Island City, in the New York City borough of Queens. The park is located in a former dockyard and manufacturing district, and includes remnants of f ...

, in New York City

Arts, entertainment, and media

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Elmer Gantry ''Elmer Gantry'' is a satirical novel written by Sinclair Lewis in 1926 that presents aspects of the religious activity of America in fundamentalist and evangelistic circles and the attitudes of the 1920s public toward it. The novel's protagonis ...

'', a 1927 novel by Sinclair Lewis * ''Elmer Gantry'' (film), a 1960 film based on the novel * ''Gantry'' (musical), a 1970 musical by Peter Bellwood, Fred Tobias, and Stanley Lebowsky, based on the novel

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