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Elevator producers
Refuse to
adjust salary for inflation
Lobby to suppress
unions' power
Found severe safety violations
Strike
Unions of maintenance workers
Conflict!
Companies satisfy all demands
Unsatisfied with compensation
Can't get
home
Old and disabled people
Cities can
better deal with overpopulation
World
population
Tall
Buildings
Can use building as part of the brand
Companies
Trump Tower,
New York
Commercial
success
Architects
Technological
shaping!
Got more opportunities for creativity
Marina Bay Sands,
Singapore
Companies using building as their brand
Rockefeller Building
420 m/min (1922)
Electric-powered
elevator
Want something faster than ridiculous
12 m/min
General public
Conflict!
Invention of
safety systems
Social shaping!
Hydraulic
elevator
Counterbalance
type of elevator
Frost and Stutt
"Teagle"
Otis Safety
Break
Crystal Palace,
New York 1853
Being able to
enjoy views from
some altitude
Danger & Doubt
Tourists
in London
Afraid of such
elevators;
danger of
failure and
drop
Steam-powered
elevator
Building
owners
Making buildings
more appealing/
accessible
Conflict!
General public
Closure !
First elevators for (elite) passengers
Nobility
System
based
on the
screw drive
To avoid using
stairs
First elevator
for objects
1000 BC
Lifting
battering ram
to destroy a
fortress
Soldiers in Islamic Spain
A platform
powered by
men, animals
and mills.
230 BC
Construction teams in Ancient Rome
Transporting
heavy, objects, water
and
construction materials