elevators

     

An elevator or lift is a transport evice used to move goods or people vertically, from one floor to another. Languages other than English may have loanwords based on either elevator (e.g. Japanese) or lift (e.g. most European languages[clarify], Cantonese). Because of wheelchair access laws, elevators are often a legal requirement in new buildings with multiple floors.

Trivia about elevators

  • The Otis Company says it has installed these in 10 of the world's 20 tallest buildings
  • The name of these facilities where wheat is stored, cleaned & graded is from the Latin for "lifted up"
  • In buildings over 10 stories they're powered by electric traction systems & lifted by steel cables
  • When S.F.'s Palace Hotel opened in 1875, visitors were amazed by these devices that were then known as "rising rooms"