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Glass Elevator Designs
| Categories: Home Elevators
A glass elevator can improve mobility at home without overwhelming your living space. A glass elevator is a conversation piece that can enhance the appearance of your house and offer a 360-degree view of the interior as you travel between floors. It ca …
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How Alexander Miles Changed Elevators
| Categories: Commercial Elevators, Elevator Education
On October 11, 1887, Alexander Miles patented his revolutionary invention, the electric elevator. Miles did not invent the first elevator, but he made improvements that are still in use today. Before Miles invented the electric elevator, elevators were …
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Pictures in Elevators Help Politician Win Elections
| Categories: Elevators In The News
Authors Jacob Smith and Neil Weinberg recently published an article in which they considered the question of whether non-campaign advertising can help candidates win elections. They examined the case of Cherie Berry, the North Carolina Commissioner of …
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Nationwide Lifts Introduces New App for iPad
| Categories: Commercial Elevators, Elevator Education, Home Elevators, Nationwide Lifts
Nationwide Lifts is excited to announce that we recently launched a new app called Nationwide Lifts Elevator Guide for the iPad. This multifunctional app makes it easy for homeowners, business managers, and architects to learn about elevators so they c …
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Glen Canyon Dam Elevators to Be Modernized
| Categories: Elevators In The News
The Bureau of Reclamation has awarded a $2 million contract to modernize six passenger elevators at Glen Canyon Dam and Powerplant near Page, Arizona. The project will include improvements to the two elevators that connect the Glen Canyon Dam Carl Hayd …
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Community Raises Money to Install Elevator at School for Paralyzed Girl
| Categories: Elevators In The News
Addy Elkins, a second grade student at Columbia Academy in Columbia, Tennessee, was paralyzed from the waist down in a car accident in 2012. She had to go outside and drive her motorized wheelchair down a hill every day to access the school’s lower lev …
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