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ELEVATOR WORLD, INC


A History of the Passenger Elevator

 

 

< p> to the online virtual Elevator Museum, researched and developed by William C. Sturgeon and ELEVATOR WORLD. Sturgeon is founder and past Editor of ELEVATOR WORLD Magazine, the international trade publication of the vertical transportation industry. The Online Elevator Museum operates as a flexible framework that allows individuals, companies and organizations to continuously contribute historic information. The Elevator Museum is an educational tool designed to provide students, researchers and industry members with a broad picture of how lifting has evolved through the ages. For more information about our mission and how you can help click About.

Museum Announcements

The November 2006 article in Elevator World by Museum Curator, Lee Grey, concerned the earliest elevator codes. To enhance that article we have made the 1917 and 1921 codes available for download by industry members.

AVAILABLE IN PDF FORMAT :

““1917 Code” and “1921 Code”

THE MUSEUM HAS A NEW CURATOR
We are proud to announce that Lee Gray, author of From Ascending Rooms to Express Elevators: A History of the Passenger Elevator in the 19th Century, has agreed to become the curator of www.theelevatormuseum.org. Gray is Chairman of the Department of Architecture at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte where he teaches Architectural History. He has earned bachelor's degrees in Architecture from Iowa State University, a Master of Architectural History from the University of Virginia and his Ph.D. in Architectural History from Cornell University. He is also a member of the Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians. He has published several articles and one book on vertical transportation and skyscrapers. Gray claims to have had a twenty-five year fascination with vertical transportation - - we are pleased to indulge that fascination in these web pages.

THE ELEVATOR MUSEUM'S NEW LOOK
We hope you like our new look. Hopefully our goals, mission and navigation will be clearer. Please tell us how you like it.

BECOME A SUPPORTER OR DONOR
The elevator museum is a free educational tool for anyone interested in the elevator/escalator industry. This museum is solely supported by Elevator World. We solicit your donations of historical material, books, brochures and pictures, but we also welcome your financial support. For more details on how to donate materials or became a sponsor click About and see "Donate" or "Support" – Thanks.

TAKE A VISUAL TOUR
The Elevator Museum is broken down into wings, halls and galleries that allows you to board imaginary moving walks to take horizontal tours of the graphics and photographs hanging in each gallery. There is no special order in which to tour the museum; you'll determine that by your needs and interests. Click any of the negative clips in a wing to take a tour. For more instruction on tours see About.



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