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March 26, 2014
No Love for Elevators!
“The lack of interest scholars have shown in the cultural life of elevators,” he wrote in a recent e-mail, “is appalling.”....As late as the 1900s, doctors worried about a nausea-inducing condition known as “elevator sickness,” caused by the sudden movement of one’s organs inside the body when an elevator came to a halting stop. How the elevator transformed America
Posted by gerardvanderleun at March 26, 2014 12:57 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
Your Say
My great grandfather was an engineer working on the first elevators installed in America. He lost a hand in the process.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 26, 2014 12:13 PM