Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An elevator operator at the Commodore condominiums takes a resident of the 95-year-old building to her unit. History lost.

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” For anyone that is interested in the life and death of the great American grain elevators, mills, and silos, the Buffalo History Museum ...

You probably don't think twice when stepping into an elevator. It's just there, ready to whisk you up to your hotel room on the 30th floor of a Vegas casino or down to the underground parking garage.

Introduction -- Ch. 1. Technological origins: freight hoists in England and America, 1800-1860 -- Ch. 2. Ascending rooms and vertical railways: the passenger elevator, 1800-1860 -- Ch. 3. An emerging ...

Homeowners at the 95-year-old Commodore Condominiums voted Wednesday to replace the 11-story building’s vintage manual passenger elevator – thought to be the only one of its kind left in Kentucky − ...