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How the Elevator Shaped Our World

Build For Tomorrow

CHAPTER

The Elevator

Andreas Bernard is the author of a book called Lifted, a cultural history of the elevator. The monarchs found the elevator to be particularly frightening and not just because it shrunk their open space. Elevators had a profound effect on the way that we organize our cities and ourselves. They may seem like an old technology today, but they have big lessons for us about the future of transportation.

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