1. Elevator — 2023-12-30 12:44:08

   …Elevator :: === Thomas Hornor 1829 === ~-[[CategoryIndustry]]::[[CategoryTransport]]:[[1800s]] {{Image url="AscendingRoom.jpg" …
   …class="right" title="Ascending Room" width="" }} In 1823 Thomas Hornor built the first powered elevator he called the **“Ascending Room”**. Hornor opened his London Colosseum, designed by Decimus Burton, to the public …
   … with it's lift to take tourists up to a platform to view the London skyline. /* event_date="10 January 1829" The first elevator goes into use. */ [[Zoo | Decimus Burton]] was an architect known for London **Wellington Arch** and Hornor was a pano…

2. Zoo — 2021-08-09 22:18:40

   …e, Nicholas Aylward Vigors and other nobility. {{Image url="ZSL_Logo.png" class="right" title="ZSL Logo" width="" }} [[Elevator | Decimus Burton]] (1800-1881 whose name derives from being the tenth of ten children) was asked to lay out the grounds…

3. Paternoster — 2018-09-18 13:06:34

   …eter Ellis - 1868 === ~-[[CategoryIndustry]]::[[CategoryTransport]] Peter Ellis installed the first paternoster lift or elevator in Oriel Chambers, Liverpool in 1868. He was born in Liverpool [[Lancashire]] on 1st August 1805. == The Paternoster P…
   …rincipal == {{Image url="Paternoster.gif" class="left" title="Paternoster Cyclic Elevator" width="500" }} Unlike an [[elevator]] that stops at each floor and opens then closes a door, the paternoster lift has multiple pods that travel continuousl…
   …tent on a paternoster and in 1884, in Dartford, England, the engineering firm of J & E Hall installed its first "Cyclic Elevator", using Hart's patent, in a London office block. The Paternoster became very popular in Europe where many still operat…

4. Passenger Lift — 2016-06-21 13:31:46

   …Passenger Lift :: [[CategoryIndustry]] === Thomas Hornor 1829 === {{redirect page="Elevator"}}…

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