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Aditya . D
1001052, VII TH SEM
B.ARCH SEC – “B”
The oldest
cast-iron
LIFT OTIS
- 1853
FIRST
ESCALATOR
PARIS 1900
Elevator and Escalator both are the devices used for
transportation between levels or from one space to
another space.
Both the system requires a certain amount of space
and maintenance.
Imagine the skyline of a modern city if the elevator did
not exist. Buildings would be limited to five or six stories.
Most of the architecture of the 20th and 21st century
would be impossible.
Office towers, hotels and high-rise
apartments would hardly stand in their present form.
But in 1852, one man helped change the face of the world’s
cities. That was the year Elisha Graves Otis invented the
safety elevator, giving rise to the modern skyline.
The need for vertical transport is as old as
civilization.
Over the centuries, mankind has employed
ingenious forms of lifting.