Lifted
Title | Lifted PDF eBook |
Author | Andreas Bernard |
Publisher | NYU Press |
Pages | 315 |
Release | 2014-02-14 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 0814787169 |
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 the early twentieth century. While it may at first glance seem a modest innovation, it had wide-ranging effects, from fundamentally restructuring building design to reinforcing social class hierarchies by moving luxury apartments to upper levels, previously the domain of the lower classes. The cramped elevator cabin itself served as a reflection of life in modern growing cities, as a space of simultaneous intimacy and anonymity, constantly in motion. In this elegant and fascinating book, Andreas Bernard explores how the appearance of this new element changed notions of verticality and urban space. Transforming such landmarks as the Waldorf-Astoria and Ritz Tower in New York, he traces how the elevator quickly took hold in large American cities while gaining much slower acceptance in European cities like Paris and Berlin. Combining technological and architectural history with the literary and cinematic, Bernard opens up new ways of looking at the elevator--as a secular confessional when stalled between floors or as a recurring space in which couples fall in love. Rising upwards through modernity, Lifted takes the reader on a compelling ride through the history of the elevator.
Elevators 101
Title | Elevators 101 PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781937689148 |
Systems Engineering of Elevators
Title | Systems Engineering of Elevators PDF eBook |
Author | J. P. Andrew |
Publisher | Elevator World, Incorporated |
Pages | 558 |
Release | 2011-01-01 |
Genre | Elevators |
ISBN | 9781886536951 |
Elevators 101
Title | Elevators 101 PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Elevator World Inc |
Pages | 129 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Elevators |
ISBN | 1886536732 |
Basic overview of elevator systems, equipment and technology. Covers elevator systems and codes, types of equipment and technology, and elevator terminology.
Elevators
Title | Elevators PDF eBook |
Author | Tracy Maurer |
Publisher | Engineering Wonders |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2017-08 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9781683424628 |
We would not have skyscrapers without the modern elevator. Learn all about elevators and how they work. This book supports NGSS standards for Engineering Design.
13th Floor Elevators
Title | 13th Floor Elevators PDF eBook |
Author | Drummond Paul |
Publisher | Anthology Editions |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2020-04-21 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781944860110 |
Born out of a union of club bands on the burgeoning Austin bohemian scene and a pronounced taste for hallucinogens, the 13th Floor Elevators were formed in late 1965 when lyricist Tommy Hall asked a local singer named Roky Erickson to join up with his new rock outfit. Four years, three official albums and countless acid trips later, it was over: the Elevators' pioneering first run ended in a dizzying jumble of professional mismanagement, internal arguments, drug busts and forced psychiatric imprisonments. In their short existence, however, the group succeeded in blowing the lid off the budding musical underground, logging early salvos in the countercultural struggle against state authorities, and turning their deeply hallucinogenic take on jug-band garage rock into a new American institution called psychedelic music. Before the hippies, before the punks, there were the 13th Floor Elevators: an unlikely crew of outcast weirdo geniuses who changed culture. Paul Drummond has spent years documenting every aspect of the history of this amazing band and amassing an unprecedented archive of primary materials, resulting in this comprehensive visual history. The book recounts the story not just of the Elevators as a band--wild and remarkable though it is--but that of the American counterculture itself: the hallucinogens, the rebellion and the truly profound music that resulted. The 13th Floor Elevators: A Visual History places the band finally and undeniably in the pantheon of innovators of American rock music to which they have always belonged.
Elevator and Escalator Rescue
Title | Elevator and Escalator Rescue PDF eBook |
Author | Theodore Lee Jarboe |
Publisher | Fire Engineering Books |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Health & Fitness |
ISBN | 1593700768 |
Contins important information for technical rescue members, training officers, and fire company members. Details the risks involved in elevator and escalator rescues and how to face them correctly.