From ascending rooms to express elevators
Subtitle: a history of the passenger elevator in the 19th century
By: by Lee E. Gray.
Publisher: Elevator World, Inc.; Elevator World
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Mobile, AL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
Subjects: Elevators -- History.
Other titles: History of the passenger elevator in the 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-311) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Technological origins: freight hoists in England and America, 1800-1860; title: Ascending rooms and vertical railways: the passenger elevator, 1800-1860; title: An emerging industry. Part 1. Mechanical refinements and expanded use: freight and passenger elevators in the 1860s; title: New settings and new problems: the elevator and the early skyscraper, 1870 to 1875; title: An emerging industry. Part 2. The hydraulic elevator, 1870 to 1900; title: An emerging industry. Part 3. New technology, old ideas and innovations: the electric elevator, 1880 to 1900; title: From ascending rooms to express elevators: the elevator and the skyscraper, 1880 to 1900; title: The amelioration of elevator accidents: safety, the public and the elevator industry in the 19th century.