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Smoot HawleyLoading up an empty elevator car with discarded Christmas trees, pressing the button for the top floor, then throwing in a match, so that by the time the car reaches the top it is ablaze with heat so intense that the alloy (called “babbitt”) connecting the cables to the car melts, and the car, a fireball now, plunges into the pit: this practice, apparently popular in New York City housing projects, is inadvisable.
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Xezzy YeatsA VERY Interesting article about That Guy, That Guy and Elevator (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_bMhNI_TY8) and elevators.
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archizooThe longest smoke break of Nicholas White’s life began at around eleven o’clock on a Friday night in October, 1999. White, a thirty-four-year-old production manager at Business Week, working late on a special supplement, had just watched the Braves beat t
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J. DunnMore than you would ever want to know about elevators and the elevator industry. Includes a terrifying story (with wiggy time-lapse video!) about a dude who got trapped in an elevator for a long weekend and then sorta lost his shit.
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Mohit JustWhile anthems have been written to jet travel, locomotives, and the lure of the open road, the poetry of vertical transportation is scant. What is there to say, besides that it goes up and down?
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graybo grayblog.co.ukExcellent (and very long) article on elevators, sorry, LIFTS. I'm not sure that the door-close button is truly a dummy - experimentation is called for.
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Kore7"Passengers seem to know instinctively how to arrange themselves in an elevator. Two strangers will gravitate to the back corners, a third will stand by the door, at an isosceles remove, until a fourth comes in, at which point passengers three and four...
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Ari R"Elevators are extraordinarily safe—far safer than cars, to say nothing of other forms of vertical transport." The biggest danger is getting stuck in one, as Nicholas White found out, stuck in his building's elevator for 41 hours in October 1999.
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In most elevators, at least in any built or installed since the early nineties, the door-close button doesn’t work. It is there mainly to make you think it works. (It does work if, say, a fireman needs to take control. But you need a key, and a fire, to do that.) Once you know this, it can be illuminating to watch people compulsively press the door-close button. That the door eventually closes reinforces their belief in the button’s power.
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andreea nastaseTwo things make tall buildings possible: the steel frame and the safety elevator. The elevator, underrated and overlooked, is to the city what paper is to reading and gunpowder is to war. Without the elevator, there would be no verticality, no density, an
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dromedary... The door-close button doesn’t work. ... Once you know this, it can be illuminating to watch people compulsively press the door-close button. That the door eventually closes reinforces their belief in the button’s power. It’s a little like prayer
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korantengElevators young man, elevators... Colson Whitehead was on to something when he wrote The Intuitionist...
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