Interesting Elevator Facts
1. Elevators are the safest mode of the transportation because elevators are supported by multiple steel cables. Each cable alone can support a fully loaded car. Elevators are 20 times safer than escalators.
2. In every three days elevators carry equivalent of entire earth’s population. More than 325 million ride on elevator on elevator.
3. Today, there are 900000 elevators in America.
4. Most of the people think an overcrowded elevator will fall. But this is not true statement because an overloaded car will normally not move. The door will stay open and a buzzer may ring until elevator to reduce the weight.
5. Elisha Graves Otis invented the elevator in 1853, who is the main supplier of the OTIS elevators.
6. There are about 1750 miles of elevator shafts compared to 840 miles of subway tracks.
7. Elevators comes from 3rd century BC Greece, which is the first record of elevator. That simple elevator was invented by Mathematician Archimedes.
8. St. Louis’ Gateway Arch founded the most famous elevator in the world and Lacerda Elevator in Salvador. It acted as a go between for uptown and downtown.
9. Some people think that if an elevator is stuck between two floors, they are in danger of falling and should try to get out. But it is only a myth not a truth because elevators car is designed to be safe room. In this case you should use the emergency telephone.
10. At ancient Roman Colosseum there are over 24 elevators. These were operated manually by over 200 slaves.
11. Most of the people believe that pushing the call button repeatedly will make the elevator come fast but it is not true because pressing the call button again does nothing. Once the call button is pressed, the call is registered.
12. The majority of people who die in elevator accidents are elevator technicians.
