Entrée principale:

Gray, Lee Edward, 1958-

Titre et auteur:

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

Publication:

Mobile, AL : Elevator World, Inc., ©2002.

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.

Ressources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

1886536465
9781886536463

Sujet:

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

Classification/genre:

History.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 272770
Cote: BIB 206117
Statut: Disponible