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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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Buffalo Grain Elevators to Be Part of Public Art Exhibition
| Categories: Elevators In The News
Throughout its history, the city of Buffalo, New York has been closely associated with its grain elevators. The elevators were invented in the 1840s and have come to symbolize the city’s economic ups and downs. Buffalo officials recently announced a ne …
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Lockheed Martin Working on Space Elevator Technology
| Categories: Elevators In The News
Scientists have been trying for years to develop the technology required to build an elevator to space. They would like to build a tower that is anchored to the Earth and stretches beyond geosynchronous orbit. The tower would be held under tension by n …
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Japanese Campaign Tries to Change Escalator Etiquette
| Categories: Elevator Education
Many people are unsure about escalator etiquette. Some think people should stand on one side so that others can walk past, while others think no one should ever walk up an escalator. People who believe riders should stand on one side disagree on which …
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