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Live TV. This Day In History. History Vault. But speed would become the driver of elevator evolution, along with its transition from hotel curiosity to office building staple, which began in the s. The eight-story, foot Equitable Life Building in downtown Manhattan, completed in , was the first office building to feature elevators from the design stage. Built by the Otis Elevator Company, they were based on hydraulics. Instead, we get innovative hydraulic elevators that can go faster and are easier to maintain," said Gray.
The industry standard for the ideal response time of an elevator -- no more than 30 seconds -- was established in these years, and remains the same today.
When the Home Insurance Building -- commonly considered the first skyscraper due to its steel frame -- opened in Chicago in , it had four elevators to serve its 10 floors. Elevator shafts were now at the core of architectural design.
Exterior of the Home Insurance Building, Chicago. The building was demolished in The penthouse. Technology was catching up, but societal rules still resisted. The Equitable Life building had windows designed to suggest it had fewer floors. The insurance company that owned it occupied the lower ones, and the custodian's apartment was at the top, as Andreas Bernard writes in " A cultural history of the elevator.
A further push came from the switch from hydraulics to electric engines. What's known as the modern electric traction elevator was developed in the first two decades of the 20th century, and it remains the industry standard to this day," said Gray. In the s, avant-garde architects like Emery Roth, who peppered the New York skyline with his iconic residential buildings, started turning the once undesirable space directly under the roof -- often laden with debris and almost unrentable -- into fashionable apartments with terraces known as penthouses.
The symbol of this new era is the Empire State Building, which opened in and would remain the world's tallest skyscraper until It had 73 elevators , the largest elevator order to date, which traveled at the unprecedented speed of 1, feet per minute. They're still an integral part of the building's lore and popularity.
Safer than the stairs. Today, the world's fastest elevator is installed in the Shanghai Tower, the second tallest building in the world. It travels at 67 feet per second or 46 miles an hour and runs continuously through 1, of the skyscrapers' 2, feet. The untold story of Dubai's first skyscraper. Taller buildings have made elevator engineering more complicated.
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