From ascending rooms to express elevators : a history of the passenger elevator in the 19th century / by Lee E. Gray.

Main entry:

Gray, Lee Edward, 1958-

Title & Author:

From ascending rooms to express elevators : a history of the passenger elevator in the 19th century / by Lee E. Gray.

Publication:

Description:

viii, 316 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-311) and index.
Introduction -- Technological origins: freight hoists in England and America, 1800-1860 -- Ascending rooms and vertical railways: the passenger elevator, 1800-1860 -- An emerging industry. Part 1. Mechanical refinements and expanded use: freight and passenger elevators in the 1860s -- New settings and new problems: the elevator and the early skyscraper, 1870 to 1875 -- An emerging industry. Part 2. The hydraulic elevator, 1870 to 1900 -- An emerging industry. Part 3. New technology, old ideas and innovations: the electric elevator, 1880 to 1900 -- From ascending rooms to express elevators: the elevator and the skyscraper, 1880 to 1900 -- The amelioration of elevator accidents: safety, the public and the elevator industry in the 19th century.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

1886536465
9781886536463

Subject:

Elevators History.
Ascenseurs et monte-charge Histoire.
Elevators.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 272770
Call No.: BIB 206117
Status: Available

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