As a couple of viewers have noted, the London Colosseum was based on the Roman Pantheon, not the Greek Parthenon. I am sorry for the error.
@mattclements13485 жыл бұрын
u should put out a raffel,winner gets to have a few beers with ya,ya k ow ask questions,i bet you a lot of ppl would
@garysarratt15 жыл бұрын
Darn them to heck for combing through your splendid videos with slide rules.
@gondolacrescent55 жыл бұрын
I confess: I have made the same mistake; I am learning to forgive myself...
@OldDood5 жыл бұрын
It was eye opening (or should I say Ear Opening) to me when we went up the Empire State Building to the top for our first time. (circa 1999-2000) We were surprised to feel our ears 'Pop' since the elevator was so fast at climbing. There is actually two elevators that you ride to the outside deck for the Empire State building. One long main one and then another shorter one. I guess they replaced the elevators in that building since we went up it so I do not know how it is today...I would assume it is similar.
@JamesThompson-oz8kh5 жыл бұрын
Rats! I thought I would be first to jump on that. Apparently there are a number of sharp-eyed viewers that are quicker than I am.
@charles-y2z6c5 жыл бұрын
I swear the history guy could make anything interesting.
@mrkitty7775 жыл бұрын
That elevated quickly. 😸
@mrdigi2t5 жыл бұрын
Next up, the curious evolution of the Pooper Scooper, and how it changed how humanity walks. History, that deserves to be remembered. I'm in.
@charles-y2z6c5 жыл бұрын
@@mrdigi2t I tried to think of something he would not do an make interesting. No matter what, I said nah he could do it. Even a simple thing like a pencil eraser could be made interesting.
@TheAuntieBa5 жыл бұрын
Charles B But only, I think, if The History Guy spoke on it.
@davidvogel63595 жыл бұрын
@@mrdigi2t I think I'll pass on needing to know about that but I still would have to watch if he makes it. LOL
@chevyon37s5 жыл бұрын
And this is why The History guy is awesome on so many levels
@Cal-cf2vo5 жыл бұрын
I see what you did there
@jackfrost21465 жыл бұрын
Did you make that up yourself, or did you lift it from someone else. I'll go now...
@1stPCFerret5 жыл бұрын
The history of elevators has had its ups and downs.
@rjg38765 жыл бұрын
It's not the ups and down it's the jerks. Very old elevator joke
@glennso475 жыл бұрын
Lots of people got the shaft.
@jbmbryant5 жыл бұрын
You had to go there...
@chevyon37s5 жыл бұрын
1stPCFerret they really brought things to new levels
@glennso475 жыл бұрын
@@rjg3876 Jerky like the shoe leather-like snack you get in the grocery store?
@Echoes_AJ5 жыл бұрын
There I was, dozing off out of boredom in history classes in high school. And here I am today, binge watching history made interesting. Developing interest is key in teaching stuff. Thank you!
@kevinheard83642 жыл бұрын
So true .... So true I even find myself with a sense of "nostalgia" as somehow, History Guy's telling of his histories brings back many "long lost" emotions. Maybe I'm not the only one??
@mickeyjanowski94575 жыл бұрын
Most city firehouses have a fire fighter that is nicknamed Otis. The “Otis’s” are familiar with elevator mechanics and carry override/master keys and are the go to person during elevator emergencies.
@ex-navyspook5 жыл бұрын
Another bit of history or trivia that deserves to be remembered. Nice!
@mickeyjanowski94575 жыл бұрын
The Otis character on the TV show Chicago Fire just got killed off. Maybe he asked for a raise :-)
@TyMoore955035 жыл бұрын
Mickey Janowski It sounds like he got "shafted!"
@blockbertus5 жыл бұрын
@@mickeyjanowski9457 Well, that is a downer. :(
@mmack72685 жыл бұрын
That’s bullshit
@TheFlatlander4405 жыл бұрын
Thanks for an interesting subject. My father worked for Otis Elevator from 1940 until 1979 with a 2 year break serving on a RCN Korvette from 1943 until 1945 during the Second World War. He worked his way up from draftsman to the one of the youngest plant works managers at 28 at the Hamilton Ontario Otis Elevator plant (the original Otis Elevator factory was based in Yonkers, NY). In the 1960's he was promoted and transferred to Otis corporate HQ in New York City in the International Division. He retired from Otis at 55 in 1979 as Vice President of Corporate Production. He passed in 1982 at 58 years young. I also worked for Otis Elevator from 1980 until I was laid off in 1992 but worked on many elevator projects including the engineering team for the "inclination" elevators installed at the Luxor Hotel, in Las Vegas.
@mjklein5 жыл бұрын
As a professional musician and record producer, we used to say: "You know you've made it when you hear your tune in an elevator".
@mrkitty7775 жыл бұрын
😮
@calendarpage5 жыл бұрын
You know you're old when you hear Jethro Tull in an elevator. I almost passed out when that happened. : )
@VoidHalo5 жыл бұрын
By that logic, Chuck Mangione should be the most successful musician ever.
@Adawg4205 жыл бұрын
@@VoidHalo Feels so good!
@catjudo15 жыл бұрын
Either Dave Grohl or Kurt Cobain said that Nirvana knew they had made it when Weird Al Yankovic spoofed Smells Like Teen Spirit. The day I hear that in an elevator, however, is the day I know that I am officially old. No matter what my teenage daughter might say.
@dirtcop115 жыл бұрын
The first elevator I ever rode in was in the 1950s, it had an operator. The most interesting elevator I rode in was the one in the Gateway Arch in St Louis. It resembles a barrel and turns as it ascends and descends.
@COIcultist5 жыл бұрын
No mention of the paternoster:kzbin.info/www/bejne/iKCWd5aVrqxmppI The film is modern stupid fear mongering. They are very safe. I rode the one in Salford University in the early 1980's. Becoming increasingly rare.
@cathipalmer82175 жыл бұрын
I rode in that one in 1969. I thought it looked just like my mother's washing machine - it felt about the same size, too.
@DavidPowellAU5 жыл бұрын
When I first encountered our city's new Metro, it struck me how like the history of the lift/elevator it was. In contrast to the older suburban trains, they're driverless. And there are doors at the station platforms that control access to the 'shaft': they only open when there are carriage doors opening behind and with them. Even the timetable is more like a shuttle schedule. Basically a horizontal elevator!
@millomweb4 жыл бұрын
I don't remember my first elevator ride but excluding elevator doors, I remember my first encounter with automatic sliding doors - that was Newcastle Airport, UK. Operated by a pressure mat in the floor.
@Gail1Marie Жыл бұрын
@@cathipalmer8217 No place for the claustrophobic, either. Not the elevator OR the low-ceilinged observation level at the top.
@tygrkhat40875 жыл бұрын
Another building that owes it's growth to the elevator: the hospital. Horizontal hospitals would take up too much space, vertical hospitals allow for much more efficient movement.
@1959ticktock5 жыл бұрын
My operation was delayed because the elevator was out of action, and the theatre was on the top floor of the hospital.
@johntabler3495 жыл бұрын
Good point
@cheriefrench69564 жыл бұрын
High rise hospitals cause delays in Dr's responding to cardiac arrest calls. One tall hospital I trained at had one car in the bank of elevators that had an attendant who would exit public fast, board responding MD s and zoom to needed floor or Emergency
@cheriefrench69564 жыл бұрын
Harder to evacuate high rise hospitals in case of fires, earthquakes and tornadoes. Ff would have to carry every patient and needed equment down all those stairs. Believe me when you work in them you know the danger.
@kevinmartin25163 жыл бұрын
The hospital nearest me has lifts with doors in both sides (so patient trolleys can go forward in, forward out). What I always get wrong, is working out which side is going to open. The answer is, it depends which set of buttons you press, the nearest ones, will open the door that you entered, or if you press the 2nd lot of buttons, then the far side will open. If people press both sets of button, then both doors will open. The planning of these is very complex.
@JrGoonior5 жыл бұрын
One of the three best history channels on KZbin. Techmoan, Technology Connections and The History Guy.
@Wallyworld305 жыл бұрын
JrGoonior You missed the best one Mark Felton Productions!
@JrGoonior5 жыл бұрын
Marty Moose Haven’t seen that yet...
@EddieErion9295 жыл бұрын
The best is fire of Learning by far! And this guy!
@kct19755 жыл бұрын
I completely agree with you!!!!
@Wallyworld305 жыл бұрын
@@kct1975 If you enjoy Naval History I highly recommend Drachinefel as well!
@Tmrfe09625 жыл бұрын
Thank you sir, once again ....I happen to be an elevator tech in NYC and have been for over 33 years. My company, Schindler Elevator along with Otis and Many others, have been using steel belts as of late, much lighter than steel ropes, and there are elevators in use that use magnets, the same theory behind maglev trains. We here in NYC have several buildings that are well over 100 floors, and there are many the world over. The computers that control elevators are quiet sophisticated and are hard to compare to units of old. In my early days, I saw everything from water hydros to drum elevators. You did a fine job with the history and I throughly enjoyed your deep dive into what I find to be a fascinating field.
@godfreypoon51485 жыл бұрын
Is your database of installed elevators called the Schindlers List?
@MrRecrute5 жыл бұрын
I’m impressed when he mentioned the Shard building in London he referred to its elevators as “lifts”. Nice switch in nomenclature.
@TheAlanSaunders4 жыл бұрын
And a pretty good stab at saying 'Australia' in an Aussie accent.
@millomweb4 жыл бұрын
I've said elsewhere that the UK does have elevators. They're more inclined belt type affairs - best example loading & unloading baggage from aircraft.
@UserUser-ww2nj3 жыл бұрын
@@millomweb Thats a bit of a loose interpretation of the ''lift '' as we know it . There is also the grain elevator . The type you refer to is a kind of escalator
@Mondo7625 жыл бұрын
I'm old enough to remember department store elevators that announced the various items at each stop.
Reminds me of the intro to the TV show “are you being served”
@glennso475 жыл бұрын
Some elevators have recorded voices announcing each stop. The elevators at William S Middleton VA Hospital in Madison are an example.
@Mondo7625 жыл бұрын
@@glennso47 Right, that's what I'm talking about. Those elevators with recorded voices used to be more common in the past.
@TheAuntieBa5 жыл бұрын
Wabi Sabi I’m old enough to remember a lot of thar - and, the Twilight Zone episode where it’s the night the manikins come alive. I’ll see it soon; my hubby gave me the complete Twilight Zone Blue Ray set.
@thgenral5 жыл бұрын
Loved the”elevate us” pun at the end!
@kotori875 жыл бұрын
*groan!* yeah that one was pretty special :)
@ibindare5 жыл бұрын
And the Muzak during the outro.
@anutterperspective5 жыл бұрын
Laughed out loud when Elevator Music played instead of Ye soundtrack! Delightful!
@bryantq37405 жыл бұрын
Same here! Sooo funny!
@Thor-rq4lk5 жыл бұрын
Hilarious!
@mercator795 жыл бұрын
Elevators kept "Girl from Ipanema" (in)famous for decades.
@ShiftingDrifter5 жыл бұрын
As a boy growing up in small town USA in the late 50s, I still remember two buildings downtown that had elevator operators. I always looked forward to riding those elevators.
@hilupianoservice11 ай бұрын
The Midland Theater in Kansas City had an operator into the 80s, and I think at least one building in Chicago still has them.
@tamijoiskewl10 ай бұрын
I'm of the Otis family and I always look for the Otis name on the threshold! There aren't many around anymore, or family sold out years ago. The Otis elevator company still exists but other competitors are much more known. I too remember spending many trips up and down our towns first elevator!
@JamesD927635 жыл бұрын
I remember how old I suddenly felt when I heard a Beatle song on an elevator.
@rcknbob15 жыл бұрын
In my case, it was the irony of stepping into an elevator and hearing "Stairway to Heaven".
@JrGoonior5 жыл бұрын
Bob Stewart OMG!!!! That’s funny!!!😂😂
@rcknbob15 жыл бұрын
@@JrGoonior Of course, we could reflect upon the fact that there is only a "Stairway to Heaven", but a "Highway to Hell". Are the traffic patterns that different?
@JrGoonior5 жыл бұрын
Bob Stewart If you get philosophical about it, the “Highway” is fast and easy, the “Stairway” is slow and more difficult.
@ELCADAROSA5 жыл бұрын
I was going to comment about hearing Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Free Bird" as elevator music, but "Stairway to Heaven"? That beats all!
@captainskippy66225 жыл бұрын
I thought I knew the history of the elevator. Now I do. When I was a kid in the 1960’s in South Carolina my mother was a manager of one department in a regional chain department store. It had three above ground stories and a basement. There was a small elevator probably close to 5x8 feet that was attended by a sweet black lady with white gloves. The control was a vertical wheel like device that had a handle and mounted on the wall. Pushing the handle counter clockwise made the elevator descend and pushing clockwise made it rise. She had to time it just right to stop the elevator even with the floor and she was always spot on. Then she would manually pull back a thick brass “screen” and open the door. Being the sweet kid that I was she would let me handle the controls but my timing wasn’t comparable to hers and I usually had to bump the control a time or two to get it situated properly. As we jounced up and down she would look down at me and smile. Growing up in the 60’s was awesome!
@MadBiker-vj5qj5 жыл бұрын
That's just a lovely story. :-)
@MichaelSHartman5 жыл бұрын
A sweet story, and it brought out the skill required to properly operate an elevator, and underlined why the operators strike succeeded.
@kevinconrad61565 жыл бұрын
There was an elevator like that still in use in a sporting goods store in downtown Philadelphia in the 1980's.
@larrybrennan14635 жыл бұрын
@IngLouisSchreurs What an interesting person you must be at parties.
@captainskippy66225 жыл бұрын
IngLouisSchreurs you’re an ass. You don’t know me and probably not a damn thing about my country and upbringing. I pointed out she was black because she had a pivotal and important job. Without her skill and knowledge everyone would be using the stairs. Everyone in the building respected and appreciated her. The owner of the business, in what was admittedly uncommon for the time, hired people of color and they held various jobs. I’ll be the first to admit it was difficult for blacks at the time. But don’t you dare call me a racist! I grew up in an Army family. My parents best friends were a black couple and again, contrary to norms at the time, we all frequented each other’s houses and many social events. So take your uppity liberal socialist elitist attitude and stick it.
@mariogiresi67925 жыл бұрын
What impressed me most about some of the older lifts was the beautiful artwork in them. New York still had some older models from the 1920s and 30s ( with operators too) being used in the early 70s. Wood interiors with carvings or paintings on the ceilings made you feel safe and calm. Now we nothing more than cold steel and metal walls with blinding reflections and used coffee cups on the floor.
@user-vm5ud4xw6n2 жыл бұрын
As always, with the History Guy touch added, history is no longer one of the most boring subjects on the high school roster of classes. A torture session to gain credits needed to graduate! Thanks HG! Another bit of history comes to life !
@Jivolt5 жыл бұрын
12:36 Groove on that Technology Connections (KZbin channel) slow jam.
@randomvintagefilm2735 жыл бұрын
My boyfriend's dad bought this old building in Zumbrota, MN. that served as a funeral home in the 1800's. In the back was this huge 8x8 elevator that emptied and filled with water to carry the coffins to the 2nd floor. First time I'd ever seen that! Very cool.
@brucetowle96895 жыл бұрын
Your channel reminds me of Paul Harvey's rest of the story.
@GalenGreenlaw5 жыл бұрын
Check out Mike Rowes “The Way I Heard It”
@0323195814 жыл бұрын
Wonderful complement! Paul Harvey was awesome!
@richardparrott7192 Жыл бұрын
As an employee of Otis for over 43 years now, I'm glad I found this great presentation! I had a colleague who re-enacted the Elisha demo for our 150 years (I think!) at a trade show down here in Oz that was quite entertaining!
@bigblue69175 жыл бұрын
One of my first jobs was working in the stockroom at the top of a department store. This included using a lift with the metal scissor gate which I hated as I had come close to trapping my fingers in on more then one occasion. Especially when opening it. So I used to slam it open or shut as hard as I can moving my fingers out of the way as I did so. And I was not alone in doing this. Even the stockroom manager used to do it, roundly cursing it as he did so.
@absalomdraconis5 жыл бұрын
They should have designed a finger shield into it, would have been a good place to put their branding & everything.
@Paladin18735 жыл бұрын
This episode was very uplifting because it reminded me of the only electrical elevator we had in our small town in the 1960s. It was in the five-story Masonic building and was operated by an elderly black woman who opened and closed the cage door and managed the operating lever. We also had a rope and pulley operated cargo lift elevator in our two-story hardware store, which was certified annually by a state inspector. We used it from the late 1920s until the 1970s, when the state decertified it. Because we could no longer lift material upstairs, the upper floor storage room became frozen in time. The few items we could store upstairs had to be manually carried up the staircase, but eventually rain rot through the roof made it unsafe to use the second floor for this purpose. This presented a bit of a problem because the lavatory was on the second floor, so in order to use it one had to be careful where to step, lest a foot went through a floorboard. Everything began to decay, including an old 48 star flag, unused display cases, a glass cutting table, and sales record books dating back to 1909 (a different store had been used across the street prior to the construction of the new store around 1929). In the end an electrical spark ignited a fire that burned the place to the ground. Aside form a safe, the only other things I salvaged were a few hundred bricks from the outer wall which I used to pave a walkway in front of my house. When I sold my home and moved away, I took a couple of leftover bricks as a reminder of a time and place that is no more. All this because of a a faulty elevator.
@blamb425 жыл бұрын
When I was a kid the Sears in Bangor had an attended elevator and one day I was allowed to go to the toy department on my own. Being a rather nerdy kid I headed to the elevator to see its operation but the attendant was not there. I had seen the elevators operation many times before so I got on board and took myself to the 5th(?) floor without incident. I don't think elevator operation was all that difficult if a nerdy 8 year old could figure it out.
@TheFlatlander4405 жыл бұрын
Yes, it was called "Car switch" operation.
@annebradley60864 жыл бұрын
A five yr old taught me how to use a vice when I volunteered at a hospital. No kidding 😁
@Gail1Marie Жыл бұрын
Ruth Bader Ginsberg's son attended a private school with an elevator operator, and he did the same thing. The school called her husband and told him their son had "stolen" the elevator. The father's response: "Well? How far could he get with it?"
@zr1sparky15 жыл бұрын
I'm elated with the history guy lifting my spirits with the ups and downs, highs and lows of the history of the elevator. The history guy is elevating us to new heights.
@lepkeb22525 жыл бұрын
When I was a kid in New York back in the late 60s and early 70s elevator operators were still a thing. And remained a thing in industrial warehouses around the city for quite some time after.
@orangelion035 жыл бұрын
It was considered a union job, Teamsters, akin to truck drivers.
@mikitz3 жыл бұрын
Also, going on a strike can be detrimental when your job is already completely obsolete.
@kevinmartin25163 жыл бұрын
Often it was a case of some buildings had multiple owners (large number of owners, owning a small number of apartments). This meant that it was difficult getting agreement to spend money on upgrades!
@Bobrogers99 Жыл бұрын
I worked in an office building in Boston in the 1950s, and Helen and Peggy were our two elevator operators. I think all the elevators in office buildings in the area had operators.
@TSemasFl5 жыл бұрын
I've been watching your channel for over a year and you finally hit home. I'm a IUEC Elevator service technician for Otis Elevator Co. for the past 31 years. I'm very impressed with your research on my profession. You pretty much summed up our whole NEIEP apprenticeship year 1 module in 15 minutes. Bravo' I learned all this and was tested on it my first year in our union. God bless the IUEC, they're the ones who make it all happen. The best and strongest Union in the country. Fantastic job, The History Guy.
@ianmacfarlane12415 жыл бұрын
"How's business?" Otis: "Up and down"
@wonniewarrior5 жыл бұрын
My stepfather and sister had a ritual banter they went through whenever they visited us. 'Hows life on the hole?' he would ask. My sister would reply 'is has it ups and downs'.
@Scott__G5 жыл бұрын
Ian Macfarlane ...all those years working as an elevator constructor, you’d think I would’ve heard that before. That was pretty funny, did you just make that up?
@ianmacfarlane12415 жыл бұрын
@@Scott__G Thank you - I'm not sure if I made it up or it was tucked away in the recesses of my mind. If appropriate, like many people, I'll try to come up with a quip or occasionally, a pun, and that one came to me, but I've got to imagine that it has been told before. I also enjoyed @Greg Moonen's telescope joke - clever and funny.
@ianmacfarlane12415 жыл бұрын
@Greg Moonen That's extremely witty, and I love the thought of someone called Moonen being involved in telescopes.
@CANControlGRAFFITI5 жыл бұрын
Ian Macfarlane it was a basic dad style joke.. you should get out more.
@PurpleRhymesWithOrange5 жыл бұрын
I love learning the history of things people use everyday and never give a thought to.
@josephgaviota5 жыл бұрын
Exactly.
@franknicholson61085 жыл бұрын
Good Pun at the end there."Elevate Us Even More" Excellent Pun. As always very informative and also why Otis seems to be growing what seems to be larger every day. Thank You
@wizardmix5 жыл бұрын
I went to school at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh in the late 90s -- which were the last years of the old building. In the building existed what I believe were the last two elevators with hired operators in the city. I have to admit it was nice to know your elevator on a first name basis and the express runs to the 10th floor were appreciated. The school moved to a new building in 2000 and I followed it there and I assume those manually operated otis elevators were replaced after we left but I have to admit really loving that system for the two years I was in that building. I'm most likely the very last generation to have ever experienced it.
@brentfarvors192 Жыл бұрын
Cant recall if I evef had an operator, but definitely experienced the "what we can do in here without one", phase...No cameras; Didnt last long...
@wizardmix Жыл бұрын
@@brentfarvors192 Not completely understanding your comment. I think anyone who lives today would have 1 to 2 weeks of withdrawal from their constant information fix. Perhaps the youngest generations would have it the hardest. That said I think some value would be gained and certainly some appreciation for how we got here would be had. That's why I appreciate being an adult before it happened. Anyone born in the mid to late 70s would have been trained to live in the world without BUT we're also the generation who has no problem functioning with.
@brentfarvors192 Жыл бұрын
@@wizardmix I cant help you...
@Gail1Marie Жыл бұрын
The Bradbury Building in Los Angeles has the classic open-cage elevators with an elevator operator, seen in the movie "The Artist." (It's also featured in more other movies and TV shows than I could count, including "Blade Runner.")
@ChadWSmith5 жыл бұрын
12:35 Technology Connections theme as "Elevator Music"
@ChadWSmith5 жыл бұрын
@Jake Krause He's done a couple. :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/amnLiGCBbMuEiq8 kzbin.info/www/bejne/nGLJmK14epd5nM0
@radon3605 жыл бұрын
Recognizing that this episode wasn't a deep dive into elevator technology, I still was a little surprised that hydraulic lift elevators didn't get a mention, given their widespread modern use in buildings usually less than 5 stories.
@RhettyforHistory5 жыл бұрын
History that's uplifting!
@servinguptheclassics20535 жыл бұрын
I see what you did there
@STARDRIVE5 жыл бұрын
It can bring you down too..
@RhettyforHistory5 жыл бұрын
@@STARDRIVE Depends on how you push it's buttons! ;)
@krissfemmpaws10295 жыл бұрын
That was an interesting video. I can remember going to one store in Bellingham that had an elevator operator in the early 1960s I think it was the Woolworths store. At this time they still had the freight elevators that came up out of the sidewalk to move freight to the basement.
@shanevaughan24405 жыл бұрын
I work for the "elevator music" company, love telling people the story of the company's founding...most people chuckle and find the history pretty cool! Also, the company was started by a WW1 vet, General George Squire, and pioneered sending the muzak over existing power lines to NY high rise buildings....way ahead of its time for the 1920s!
@Gail1Marie Жыл бұрын
I worked in a business in downtown Minneapolis 50 years ago, and discovered that (at least there) the Muzak played on a two-week loop. Every other Friday at 3 p.m. it played a distinctive song that had tom-toms (THUMP-thump-thump-thump-THUMP-thump-thump-thump).
@dbeaus5 жыл бұрын
I love these snippets because I have read History for 60 years. But, the elevator attendants were not completely eliminated in the 20's. Growing up in the 50's in Chicago there were quite a few buildings, mostly dept. stores such as Sears, Wieboldts, Grants, Marshall Fields, and others who I remember as a young boy having elevator operators. Some clever owners had only good looking girls for obvious reasons. They were slow and stopped at every floor, but no one seemed to care. It was a sign of the times, we weren't always in a hurry for no reason. I remember those elevator rides with my family. We were filled with eager anticipation as to where we were going, even though we rarely knew where that was. As always, Thank you.
@Studio23Media5 жыл бұрын
Did you know an elevator chimes once when going up and twice when going down? This is an accessibility feature mandated by the ADA in the US.
@josephgaviota5 жыл бұрын
I did _not_ know this, and now I will pay attention to it.
@sallygomez87992 жыл бұрын
Never paid attention to it!!
@AaronOfMpls Жыл бұрын
Technology Connections has an excellent video about that: kzbin.info/www/bejne/amnLiGCBbMuEiq8 EDIT: Also, turn subtitles on -- he has some fun ways of marking the chime noises in there.
@cornsyruptrucker Жыл бұрын
Thanks, Alec from technology connections!
@shaddonon Жыл бұрын
The enthusiastic muzak over the closing remarks was an especially nice touch
@JrGoonior5 жыл бұрын
For a second I thought I was watching Technology Connections....
@CharlesFigueroaJr5 жыл бұрын
I was like "Where is the scrolling Patreon supporters and clever closing joke?"
@jasonwomack40645 жыл бұрын
It caught me offguard, I had to fight the sudden urge to disassemble electronics.
@PhillyRacer1215 жыл бұрын
Came to the comments section just for this.
@TintelFruit5 жыл бұрын
12:36 yes
@tigerkill4205 жыл бұрын
Agreed
@StevenOwensby5 жыл бұрын
I've never thought of elevators until now. And now, I'll marvel about how they work every time. Keep up the good work History Guy.
@Johnnycdrums5 жыл бұрын
Manual elevators didn't go away in 1945. As a High School kid during the Seventies I ran a manual elevator in a five floor office building.
@notsosilentmajority15 жыл бұрын
There are still some elevators run by operators in buildings in NYC. I'm sure there are other places as well.
@Cyberpuppy634 жыл бұрын
The Eatons department store, right here in Hamilton had them until they closed, mid 90's.
@MrDemonchild714 жыл бұрын
I used to love the old lifts with the drivers that had to turn the huge handle and the brass lattice doors. Im only 46 and they had them in one of the big old stores in sydney when I was about 11. I cant remember if it was david jones, myres or grace brothers but they all had alot of their old features retained back then. I loved the clunking of the old wooden escalators too. I really like your channel. You make history not boring
@sac35285 жыл бұрын
12:35 wow golly that's some tasty muzak I feel like it has some kind of connection to technology
@mikeyoung98105 жыл бұрын
I used to make deliveries in KC mo back in the 80's and lots of older buildings had freight elevators with those metal cage doors that popped from above and below to meet in the middle and you used a lever to move the elevator. And I remember the Muelbach Hotel on 12th street had elevator operators using that lever with no buttons. Very fancy elevators. And in the state capitol of Ks in Topeka had an open air elevator in the center of a large area under the dome that moved very fast and was essentially a cage. I had the honor of being a page there while in the 6th grade back in the 60's.
@TintelFruit5 жыл бұрын
12:36 I suddenly feel a technology connection...
@randycrocker94595 жыл бұрын
About the history guy making anything interesting, i commented a while back that i believe he could make a snail crawl interesting. His best work, in my opinion was the enthusiasm demonstrated when talking/ educating us about transistors. That day reigns supreme as the most excited i have seen from his otherwise composed but informative nature. If ever a person wanted to take notes on becoming a teacher, that day was a standard of excellence that would be hard to equal and even harder to maintain....
@justme88375 жыл бұрын
The Hassayampa Inn in Prescott AZ still has a working Otis elevator. There is an attendant that works it for you.
@TheHistoryGuyChannel5 жыл бұрын
Actually, Otis is still in business and there are working Otis elevators all over. The elevator at the Hassayampa was installed in 1927.
@lachlanbird96885 жыл бұрын
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel I was disappointed that you did not mention the , OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY manufacturing plant that was in Stockton , California ! (My home town) The buildings are still in use today as an industrial park , I have been inside some of the original shops there , including where the machine shop was located .
@IvorMektin17015 жыл бұрын
@@lachlanbird9688 I'm surprised they didn't turn it into a meth lab 😂
@663rainmaker5 жыл бұрын
Celita G W Cheyenne Wyoming USA 🇺🇸 The Majestic Bldg! 1603 Capitol Ave used to operate a original Otis Elevator!! Still in operation today! Super Dependable too.. parts are getting few
@justme88375 жыл бұрын
@@663rainmaker that's so cool.
@edschaefer65974 жыл бұрын
History Guy: As always, this is an excellent video. In January, 1945, an army B-25 Mitchell medium bomber flew into the Empire State building between the 78th and 80th floors. Elevator operator Betty Oliver fell 75 floors and survived the fall with major injuries. Supposedly, it's still the world's record for surviving an elevator fall. It's certainly not a record I want to break.
@steevee19455 жыл бұрын
When getting into the elevator in the Space Needle at the 1962 Worlds Fair in Seattle, WA, I could feel the car rising and falling a half inch or so, as the wind pushed on the 500+ foot exposed cables. The glass walls did not help my acrophobia.
@marsgal425 жыл бұрын
I've ridden the elevators up the CN Tower. Excellent view, but I can see how it could make people nervous. The opposite extreme might be the Empire State Building. Since it was somewhat over-engineered it's cramped and dark inside, almost claustrophobic.
@GH-oi2jf5 жыл бұрын
steevee1945 - With the most recent renovation, the observation deck now has a glass floor and retaining wall.
@kevinmartin25163 жыл бұрын
@@marsgal42 Yes I went on the CN Tower. I dived in and turned around so I could grab a front spot. Only to discover that what I thought might be a popular location, I ended up on my own and everyone else cowered at the back!
@paulbelo3 жыл бұрын
Nice job, really enjoyed that. There is a book: "Faster" that has information; not about how high a lift can go, but, technology to make them faster without getting people sick. How fast can you go, no one wants be in a slow lift. Make it "Faster", it's a delicate balance.
@danmenz95725 жыл бұрын
I alway thought it strange that the "Otis Elevator Company" office (had to have been a sales office) in Dayton, Ohio, was a single story building.
@cynthiaamitrano89155 жыл бұрын
I worked for an insurance company which insured Otis Elevator. Safe risk. Very well made and maintained. You remind me of my physician not only in appearance buy mannerisms. I like him a lot. He was going to retire, but I told him I would have to look for a new doctor. He said, okay, I won't retire until you croak. His exact words. I can't hold him to it, but it was a nice gesture.
@joanhoffman37025 жыл бұрын
I remember this fictitious slogan: Otis elevators: guaranteed never to let you down.
@pugle15 жыл бұрын
...Only, they do, but in a controlled fashion ;)
@fredblonder78505 жыл бұрын
I thought that was “Good to the last drop”, or was that Maxwell House?
@ex-navyspook5 жыл бұрын
@@fredblonder7850 If it's not, it should be.
@a1sc75 жыл бұрын
I love that you just start ... no unnecessary preamble intro and song . Yada yada. Thanks for that. A fan.😘
@randybentley26335 жыл бұрын
The Biltmore House has a beautifully done Otis elevator that was built in 1895 and still functions last I read.
@ddierschow4 жыл бұрын
I worked for Otis in the mid 1980's on their next highrise elevator. At the time, there were over thirty safety features that all have to be reporting "safe" for the elevator to function. I was pretty impressed by how much effort was put into these features.
@NSUGS5 жыл бұрын
*Technology Connections intenfies*
@DarkAudit5 жыл бұрын
*Historically smooth jazz*
@artnickel16645 жыл бұрын
If you ever get to Tampa, FL you should make reservations at Berns Steakhouse. In addition to great food, they have a very old Otis elevator. Be sure to take the kitchen tour & make reservations for desert, which is served upstairs.
@DaveNagy5 жыл бұрын
Tip: when adding bgm to a track have at least half or a third as loud as your main voice track. So if voice is set at -6db, set the bgm to -18db. That Muzak was hella loud.
@ronfullerton31625 жыл бұрын
For an old geezer like myself with hearing loss, it was loud enough to make hearing what the HG was saying rather hard.
@HSMiyamoto5 жыл бұрын
Yeah, 6-12 dB Is the right difference whenever you want to layer two sounds over each other.
@helenevans11094 жыл бұрын
Anybody remember the movie "Airplane" with the "raindrops are falling on my head" gag?
@mymorningjacket34365 жыл бұрын
I will never look at an elevator the same again great vid keep up the great work.
@v.e.72365 жыл бұрын
Cute! Ending the segment w/ "elevator" music. Or, would that be musac? Thank you for this very uplifting history lesson.
@radon3605 жыл бұрын
Or Muzak: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muzak Possibly a seed for a future, more encompassing topic on this channel, perhaps.
@stevehoch95285 жыл бұрын
Good video as always. Your style kind of reminds of James Burke's Connections which was my all time favorite history series. Keep up the good work!
@shawnr7715 жыл бұрын
There are plans? to build an elevator to outer space. I have a 1903 copy of a Sweet's Construction Catalogue. It has many lift systems to get materials especially mortar for bricks up the sides of buildings for use by people working on scaffolds.
@DrPowerElectronics Жыл бұрын
1896 Ward Leonard electrical drive system became universally adopted in elevators up to the 1980s, when electronics took over. It gave fine control and a smooth ride. Great episode! Thanks.
@volrath__5 жыл бұрын
That outro music, I swear I know it from somewhere, my brain seems to think it's the melody of a Sonic the Hedgehog level theme but I can't think of which one... Also hearing Technology Connections theme music threw me a bit lol!
@swr12405 жыл бұрын
Found your page from a recommended video while watching The Action Lab. Love it! I used to hate history in school; now I find it fascinating! Thanks for making these videos! I've been binge-watching your channel. XD
@deanrobert86745 жыл бұрын
I wonder how many professions "striked" Themselves out of a job.
@chrispza5 жыл бұрын
Dean Robert Printers. Theirs was a skilled, well-paid profession, and many misused their privileged status to demand ever-increasing perks. The British printers' union was egregious in this regard. Newspaper-owners and printshops found it cheaper in the long run to buy expensive electronic kit than to deal with the constant threat of stoppage.
@wschart5 жыл бұрын
Air traffic controllers
@dbmail5455 жыл бұрын
In 1968 ( I think) Leon county Florida teachers went on strike for more pay. Turned out to be a strategic error. So many legislators had their children in Leon county schools that they passed a law designating ALL school personnel, teachers and support as essential employees like fire fighters and police officers. A "no strike" provision has been in every contract since.
@annebradley60864 жыл бұрын
It's just a drop in the bucket compared to what these Evil NWO's have done to us riding on a fake pandemic. macrotrends.net show the death rate has not changed this year from last year. Neither Trump or Biden should be elected. Pence should be placed as President. PubliusRoots.com
@geoben18104 жыл бұрын
And as always, H.G. elevates our knowledge of all things that deserve to be remembered.😉👍🏻
@erictaylor54625 жыл бұрын
12:00 They struck themselves right out of work.
@172-e5s5 жыл бұрын
That's unions for ya. The greedy wheel gets the boot
@johntabler3495 жыл бұрын
Unions are often terribly short sighted
@erictaylor54625 жыл бұрын
@@johntabler349 All they really care about is their own bottom line. If you can't see beyong your next check, you are bound to screw yourself.
@josephgaviota5 жыл бұрын
True that ... now we have the "Fight for Fifteen" crowd ... who are being replaced by kiosks.
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this History Guy. I love this presentation. I live in an apartment on the 13th floor of an Ivory Tower on the side of Table Mountain, in Cape Town. The Thyssen Krupp elevators have just been replaced after 50 years with Otis elevators. More Digital.
@otpyrcralphpierre17425 жыл бұрын
Did Otis "Pirate" someone else's invention? You know, cause every Good story has Pirates in it....
@malcolmbacchus4215 жыл бұрын
Love the pauses before "lift". If you had more time, I guess a mention of the old Paternoster (now sadly outlawed in the UK) would have been fun. As would a mention of the very modern ThysennKrupp cable-less elevator which will also go sideways as well and up and down.
@markrossow63034 жыл бұрын
I got to ride the contiuous belt pater noster in U.S. Army HQ in Frankfurt 4th grade it also appears briefly in "Night Train to Berlin" movie
@jamesgorman56925 жыл бұрын
I remember my mother having a conversation with an American and saying "we call them lifts", he said we invented them to which she replied we invented the language. Parents can be embarrassing!
@raytrevor15 жыл бұрын
Elevator or lift. Seems that they are only for going up!
@chrisneedham58035 жыл бұрын
So what my Mother invented the 'pork chop' ......... well maybe not
@josephgaviota5 жыл бұрын
@@chrisneedham5803 Dr. Evil's father invented the question mark. Well, that's what they said in the movie ...
@paulredinger4204 жыл бұрын
And he said. " yes, but we perfected it."
@rogerwhittle20785 жыл бұрын
Your relish at using "Elevate us......" as a closing line, was palpable. You sir, are having altogether too much fun at this job. Keep it up though and thanks for yet another winner. In the category of "Not many people know that", each of the two World Trade Centre towers had about 104 elevators, only one of which - car #50 - went from the very top to the very bottom. It was a freight elevator.
@richardklug8225 жыл бұрын
When young, I remember riding in an elevator that lacked a "13" button on the floor selector panel. Was this a common practice in older buildings?
@rabbi1203485 жыл бұрын
Often floors would actually be numbered ... 11, 12, 14, 15... Great scene in "Oh Gd" where John Denver gets in the elevator and goes to the 26th floor to meet Gd -- in a 17-floor building.
@phalynwilliams41195 жыл бұрын
Yes, oftentimes 13 was omitted because of the number’s association with bad luck. The letter “A” would replace the number 13.
@bobbulat13935 жыл бұрын
In East Asia it was either 3A or M
@bobwild99955 жыл бұрын
I know of one building that the 13th floor is a mechanical mezzanine marked with a "M"
@glennso475 жыл бұрын
When the building only had 11 or 12 floors yes!
@thaddeushawley65235 жыл бұрын
Would absolutely love and greatly appreciate if you could do an episode on Henry A. Wallace. He is definitely someone in history who shouldn't be forgotten. Love your videos thanks for all the hard work you do.
@tonyrobertson63285 жыл бұрын
wish you would have mentioned pater noster elevators.
@funstuff20064 жыл бұрын
Yes! The first time I'd ever heard tell of them was when I watched 'Babylon Berlin,' and thought to myself, 'you've gotta be kidding!' Apparently there are still a few in use. Arguably more efficient.
@DavidVanmeterDutch3 жыл бұрын
All the elevator puns for and in this video really raises the bar on pun usage! Pretty impressive.
@jeffmorris88725 жыл бұрын
"Did anybody watch this video using an elevator?" "Nope, it was the stares."
@geoben18105 жыл бұрын
Only the History Guy can make the history of anything interesting and deserving of being remembered. 👍🏻😉
@twzted_synapse2215 жыл бұрын
Was really hoping you would have discussed the "inclinators" in the Luxor hotel in Las Vegas. A different type of elevator that actually moves in a diagonal line. Those were a very interesting experience to ride in.
@rdaltry7775 жыл бұрын
Also the St Louis Arch. As you go up, the elevator cars begin to tip to one side, then they periodically straighten out.
@TheFlatlander4405 жыл бұрын
Yep, I was on the Otis Elevator engineering team that helped designed those inclination elevators. Interesting enough, we actually borrowed the design concept from the Eiffel Tower elevators which were also an original Otis design.
@geoffrogerson99375 жыл бұрын
Always nice that The History Guy remembers us here in Australia. Now for my elevator story. About twenty years ago, my best mate wound up in the hospital because of a serious work injury. As they were wheeling him upstairs for more tests, we were rolled onto a lift made by the Schindler Elevator Company. I said “Hey Mate, look at that! You’re on Schindler’s Lift!” It was the only time he ever laughed at one of my jokes, as bad as it was. Come to think of it, he might only have been laughing because of the painkillers he was on.
@johnoberst10455 жыл бұрын
I once knew a guy who was a one-way elevator operator. He was on the up-and-up.
@172-e5s5 жыл бұрын
Ba-RRRUM-PUM ! I got a million of 'em !
@seavee20005 жыл бұрын
Happy to say I served my engineering apprenticeship with Otis Elevator Co., before UT took over. Was a good firm back then. Thanks for posting.
@awizardalso5 жыл бұрын
Back in the 1980's, I had a friend who worked for the Haines Company who made the Criss-Cross telephone books that you could find the person who had the number by looking up the phone number or the street address. He brought me and another friend to various cities where they would hire delivery people from a motel to deliver the new book and pick up the old ones. He rented me a hatchback Ford Pinto and I delivered/picked up books to office buildings in the downtown areas. In St. Louis, some of the office buildings had elevators that each only serviced 10 floors at different levels.
@murrvvmurr5 жыл бұрын
I live in Europe and many appartments buildings still have pre ww1 elevators, with wood doors inside and a cage outside . Some are otis brand. I love the charm of those old elevators....
@tonyk15845 жыл бұрын
history guy, in the 1970's I was in a building in Frankfurt Germany that had a "Pater Noster" elevator. It took some courage to jump into the little booth at first and you had better be paying attention because you had to step off as it streamed pass the floor you needed to get off on. Also, why didn't the brakes work on the elevator in the Empire State Building when the bomber crashed into it. If I remember from your podcast, the lady survived because the cables underneath the car cushioned her fall .
@TheFlatlander4405 жыл бұрын
The "brakes" are also controlled by a separate cable which controlled a speed regulator. If all the cables are severed, you free fall.
@tonyk15845 жыл бұрын
@@TheFlatlander440 Oh!
@davidvogel63595 жыл бұрын
@@TheFlatlander440 wasn't that in the video?
@randycollins96985 жыл бұрын
They "think" the air pressure in the shaft actually slowed the car just enough for her to survive. Elevator lore has it she ask the elevator service tech what to do if this should occur, apparently he gave her great advise, lay flat on the floor across the middle of the cab. It distributes your weight on impact and the middle is the strongest in case pokey things come through the floor.
@psw47635 жыл бұрын
It's a marvelous invention but I still worry about getting stuck in one. I felt better years ago when someone managed the elevators. Sadly that's another job that was taken away from people. Now each day more stores are closing also. It's really depressing. Thank you for another great video
@DerrickOil5 жыл бұрын
You know are old when you hear your favorite rock anthem turned into elevator music.
@josephgaviota5 жыл бұрын
I'm not sure if that makes me happy or sad :-/
@deplorablecovfefe9489 Жыл бұрын
the industrial elevators ive used had two gate doors you had to pull down,(one for the lift,one for blocking the shaft) before the lift could work. Simple limit switchs on the gate doors keeps elevator from moving if gates are up.
@IvorMektin17015 жыл бұрын
Next time you're in an elevator with strangers, whisper conspiratorially, "Hey, wanna smell something weird?"
@glennso475 жыл бұрын
Who invented the elevator music to make the elevators go up and down?
@glennso475 жыл бұрын
Or perhaps "you wanna rub my hairy legs?" Perhaps "you wanna see some pictures?"
@JrGoonior5 жыл бұрын
Glenn Lego Uncle Joe the doctor says it’s time for your medication...,
@josephdemartino6053 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for covering this and for giving the Crown Prosecutor due credit.
@rabbi1203485 жыл бұрын
"This is Otis Elevator singing his new hit, 'I've Had My Ups and Downs'." Firesign Theatre By the way, 40 feet/second = 27 mph which is pretty quick for a vertical ride of say 1000 feet.
@gregbrockway44525 жыл бұрын
Thanks, I was just reaching for my calculator when I saw this comment. Are you sure about those numbers though? Remember, everything you know is wrong.
@rabbi1203485 жыл бұрын
@@gregbrockway4452 I've always remembered from HS Physics that 60 mph = 88 ft / sec, so I pulled up the calculator and that's what I got - 60 mph x 10/11 (for a sanity check).
@gregbrockway44525 жыл бұрын
Lol!, I don’t doubt your mathematical skills at all, that’s the title of one of Firesign’s albums.
@orangelion035 жыл бұрын
We're all bozos on this elevator.
@gregbrockway44525 жыл бұрын
Bob Rabinoff-Don’t crush that dwarf, hand me pliers
@stevenpdxedu5 жыл бұрын
While your episodes always take us to new heights of elucidation, that last pun was soooo bad, it was classically good. Your delivery, as always, is impeccable. Thanks for the fun.