Lifted: A Cultural History of the Elevator by Andreas Bernard

Lifted: A Cultural History of the Elevator

Andreas Bernard

309 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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Before skyscrapers forever transformed the landscape of the modern metropolis, the conveyance that made them possible had to be created. Invented in New York in the 1850s, the elevator became an urban fact of life on both sides of the Atlantic by ...

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