How Elevators Changed the World | Origins: The Journey of Humankind

Once we had the tools to erect tall buildings, their height was still limited by one thing: our willingness to walk up all those stairs. Enter: the Otis elevator.
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[@michaelpharr8343]

Just taking my horse up to my bed room, top floor lol

[@VikasTiwari-ye8sv]

Truly elevator has change our world

[@user-wp8yx]

7 stories, huh? Penthouse on the bottom, huh? Thanks. Just what I was looking for.

[@1p6t1gms]

I’m on top of the noise and smell.

[@Calligraphy-dilipaweeratunga13]

In 200BC there were monastries in Sri Lanka those had 9 to 15 storeys .

[@FamilyHistoriandude]

Vertical railroad. I wonder if sidewalks will ever become conveyor belts like airports have.

[@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive]

They already have some of those on Hong Kong streets.

[@groyper6567]

Elevator technicians biggest nightmare are conveyer belts thats why you always see those things down.

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@@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive because chinese are fat and lazy

[@payelsarkar4474]

Wonderful........

[@sujanmangarati5831]

Forgot to tell who built the safety break mechanism. It was Otis who performed how the breaking system worked by himself. He commanded someone to cut the rope and the elevator stopped. After this, his sale of 3 elevators a year turned into 2000 elevators in the next decade because of the demonstration.

[@swansonnnn]

Why is the intro/host so dramatic? It's just a video about elevators

[@xenophanessonic821]

Piston elevators in a nutshell

[@dolphinkid5341]

Excuse my ignorance, but at 1.24 why is the horse being lifted. I am very curious about this, could somebody give me a brief history lesson?

[@flobots502]

Horses were still used to transport materials during construction of the building.

[@francescamemo81]

A QUESTION FOR YOU ALL: min 01:30, does he say "from Florida floor"? I don't think so, but neither can I imagine what he says. Any help??

[@elevator_satellite]

Floor to floor.

[@99CentRapper]

I've walked 12 floors before,I was beat

[@dustinpaulmedina6842]

i love elevators

[@gabrieljohnson6309]

By the way are no buildings that's 200 stories tall. The tallest building in the world in Dubai. It's called the Burj Khalifa & it stands at 160 stories tall.

[@elevator_satellite]

There will be.

[@FamilyHistoriandude]

Maybe one day there'll be a mile high tower.

[@TheKristina-pz3dq]

Lol this guys voice 🤪 Cool show

[@calvinbrooks9821]

I walked up 90 flights

[@FamilyHistoriandude]

Talk about endurance.

[@whizpartydoge4430]

Hey, the dude in the beginning is the same dude from the Brain Games series on Netflix

[@mrsompodghagra]

Brain games was also in discovery tv .

[@mrsompodghagra]

But what is his name ?

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@@mrsompodghagra jason silva i think

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@@kolikoasdpvp thank you

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@@mrsompodghagra np

[@Y2Kvids]

I have watched Kate and Leopold. So no need to say it again, time travel.

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Four 😍😍😍

[@elevatorworld8615]

Otis elevator

[@buyana114]

Im here before this gets recommended to everyone

[@starryfolks]

what are the timings of this show?

[@janortiz880]

What about Alexander Miles?

[@geraltofrivia3083]

They're not gonna mention him. I wonder why?

[@relevanteaglealarms109]

A vertical railroad?

[@toranggurning1346]

1:35 did he just giggling? lmfao

[@YahYou813]

no he said "via a rope"

[@calsavestheworld]

This guy is WAY too enthusiastic about elevators. He has a roller coaster voice, maybe rocketships.... not elevators.

[@jmcgarvey1234]

Storey that George Herman Ruth was so enamored when he first saw an elevator, at age 19, that his teammates told him he was like a babe in the woods, and the name stuck.

[@habbo7334]

I sexually identify as an elevator

[@TiberiusStorm]

Because you like to be ridden?!

[@namedyukinne4398]

Me too

[@flobots502]

I'm a vertical railroad

[@jasonmishka8389]

Yes

[@dilfmag9832]

uppys query

[@Lucindva]

Here because of storm and silence lol

[@IAMDIMITRI]

Can we get somebody funny and down to earth maybe?

[@flobots502]

Elevators could easily be done by water and weight. I doubt we were the first to do this in history

[@kontoru22]

Explain

[@DANIELLE_BREANNA_LACY]

Water and weight? That reminds me of the RMS Lusitania.

[@AliJohnAfandi]

Elevators date back to around 250 BC

[@flobots502]

@AliJohnAfandi from what we found so far... all of history has and will never be fully discovered. Look how far back we keep discovering human existence. The earliest signs of intelligence keep getting older and older the more we explore and discover

[@rgeverything7]

2024 whoching ❤

[@elsalibaux9301]

You forgot to introduce the first interviewee. What's her name?

[@jrueskixo]

Second

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Hi dean serenity Jamestown.

[@andrenewcomb3708]

Otis didn't invent anything. Egyptians had been doing this for thousands of years along the Nile.

[@Usilianna]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Odis or Odin

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Dog eat Dog.

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T beau maturin

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Third

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First

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