elevator – some facts

The first evidence of the use of elevators was in 216 by Archimedes.

The hydraulic elevator was invented in 1845 and used mainly for industrial purposes

The electric elevator, what we know today, was invented in Germany in 1880

In the United States, Canada and Japan the name for elevator is the same as we know- “elevator”.

In contrast to the in the UK, Ireland and Australia were it called “lift”.

Without the invention of the elevator, the world would have looked completely different – no high building

There is disagreement among various religious denominations about permission to use the “Shabbat elevator”

Israeli law states that in a residential building where there is more than one elevator, a “Shabbat mechanism” will be installed on one of the elevators. If a tenant is required to operate the mechanism, he must bear the costs.

Dodo Tassa’s song, called “Elevators”, was released about 8 years ago and has about 4.4 million views on YouTube. Rising and crashing …

On aircraft carriers there are lifts that transfer planes from a parking floor to takeoff runway and vice versa, these lifts can lift 91000 kg

The world’s fastest elevator is manufactured by Mitsubishi in Shanghai and it reaches 73.8mph