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Identifier: historyofrealest00durs (find matches)
Title: A history of real estate, building and architecture in New York City during the last quarter of a century
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Durst, Seymour B., 1913-, former owner. NNC Real Estate Record Association Union League Club (New York, N.Y.), former owner. NNC
Subjects: Real estate business Building Architecture
Publisher: New York : Record and guide
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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BUILDING AND ARCHITECTURE IN NEW YORK. 373 Passenger Elevators. The i^picl development of the passenger elevator has had an im-portant and far-reacliinj^ result upon construction, mainly in thiscountry, but also in foreign lands. After the trial of the verticalscrew elevator in the Fifth Avenue Hotel, years prior to 1868, therewas a long period of some six or seven years, during which the in-ventors and manufacturers of passenger elevators received but poorencouragement from builders or the general i)ul)lic. The historyof their early trials and tribulations is a lesson in the value of perse-VoTance in well-doing. The first of the susi)en(led steam elevatorsof the ( )tis t\ ;)e was put in the .St. James Hotel in 1866, two yearsbefore the beginning n\ our ))eriod of review. This type came intopretty extended use during the next seven years, but it neverattained to popular approval. The jerky motion that was well-nighinseparable from them and the accidents that attended their intro-fluct

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