Thu
Apr
17
Things You Don't Know About Modern Elevators
Some of my favorites:
- Elevators are twenty times safer than escalators.
- The Otis Elevator Company carry the equivalent of the world’s population in their elevators every five days.
- The only known occurence of an elevator car free falling due to a snapped cable (barring fire or structural collapse), was in 1945. A B25 Bomber crashed into the Empire State Building, severing the cables of two elevators. The elevator car on the 75th floor had a woman on it, but she survived due to the 1000 feet of coiled cable of fallen cable below, which lessened the impact.