Facts about elevators and other Interesting Data

Here are some fascinating elevator historical facts:

• According to statistics, riding an elevator is the safest option.

• Escalators are 20 times less dangerous than elevators. Elevators are 20 times less dangerous than escalators.
• At the old Roman Colosseum, 24 elevators were manually controlled by a force of more than 200 slaves.
• The New York Marriott was the first building to incorporate an elevator with manual user control.
• One cable-hauled elevator may travel up to a maximum altitude of 1700 feet.
• Each of the several wires that support each elevator is capable of carrying the entire elevator and its passengers in safety.
• The Close Door button won't make the door close more quickly.
• The equivalent of the entire population of Earth is transported every three days in elevators.
• The bulk of today's elevators is supplied by a corporation founded by Elisha Graves Otis, the inventor of the modern elevator.
• The first elevator was described in writing in third-century BC Greece. Mathematician Archimedes created that basic elevator.
• In order to reassure nervous passengers using the elevators for the first time, elevator music was originally introduced in the 1920s.