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a vertical room that quietly made skyscrapers, and small talk, inevitable.
means A platform or enclosed car that carries people and goods up and down between the floors of a building, powered by cables, hydraulics, or a motor.
from From Latin 'elevare,' to lift up — 'e-' (out) plus 'levare' (to raise, from 'levis,' light). English already had 'elevate' by the 15th century; 'elevator' as the machine is a 19th-century American coinage, the agent noun for 'the thing that elevates.' Britain went a different way and called it the 'lift,' which is why the two words still ride past each other across the Atlantic.
- safety brake
- Otis's 1853 invention sold safety, not lifting
- door close
- Many close buttons do absolutely nothing
- elisha otis
- Cut the rope onstage to prove it
- music origin
- Muzak calmed riders scared of early lifts
- deepest shaft
- A South African mine drops nearly 3 kilometers
otis elevator company — first electric elevator installed in 1889 at 349 fifth avenue, new york
shanghai tower elevator — fastest in world at 40.3 mph, shanghai china completed 2015
rise at hudson yards — tallest residential elevator in north america at 1,401 feet, new york