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Blonde Girl With Blue Eyes And Big Breasts Shows Off In The Elevator
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Starting in the coal mines, by the mid-19th century elevators were operated with steam power and were used for moving goods in bulk in mines and factories In 1823 in London, an "ascending room" was built and operated by two architects, Burton and Hormer. It was designed as a tourist attraction to elevate paying customers to a panoramic view of the city. The "Teagle" - a belt-driven elevator with a counterweight was developed in 1835 by Frost and Stutt in England.
The hydraulic crane was invented by Sir William Armstrong in 1846 for use primarily at the docks of London for loading cargo. These quickly supplanted the earlier steam driven lifts as they were able to leverage Pascal's law for a much greater force. They used a plunger below the car to raise or lower the elevator. A pump applied water pressure to a steel column inside a vertical cylinder. Increasing the pressure caused the elevator to ascend. The elevator also used a system of counterbalancing so that the plunger did not have to lift the entire weight of the elevator and its load. The plunger, however, was not practical for tall buildings, because it required a pit as deep below the building as the building was tall. Later, a rope-geared elevator with multiple pulleys was developed.
Henry Waterman of New York is credited with inventing the "standing rope control" for an elevator in 1850.
In 1852, Elisha Otis introduced the safety elevator, which prevented the fall of the cab if the cable broke. The design of the Otis safety elevator is somewhat similar to one type still used today. A governor device engages knurled roller(s), locking the elevator to its guides should the elevator descend at excessive speed. He demonstrated it at the New York exposition in the Crystal Palace in a dramatic, death-defying presentation in 1854.
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