New York Panorama a Comprehensive View of the Metropolis
New York Panorama a Comprehensive View of the Metropolis
Federal Writers Project New York City
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Other costs increase in proportion. The age of the various skyscrapers can be roughly gauged by their height. Just as, generally speaking, the youngest mountains are the high est, so the very tallest of the skyscrapers are the latest. New York and Chicago The skyscraper originated not in New York but in Chicago. Apart from its early introduction of the cast-iron front, New York contributed to the skyscraper only one indispensable element the elevator. The first com mercial passenger elevator in...stallation, in 1857, was in a building on the corner of Broadway and Broome Street, though the honor is claimed for Cooper Union and others. The old Fifth Avenue Hotel was famous for its "vertical screw railway, " installed by Otis Tufts in 1859 as the first passenger elevator run by steam. The "screw" was a hollow grooved tube surrounding the whole car and revolving around it on the principle of a worm gear. The first office-building elevator installation was in the first Equitable Building on Broadway, designed by George B.
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