David Trotter reviews ‘Lifted’ by Andreas Bernard, translated by David Dollenmayer · LRB 3 July 2014
According to elevator legend, it all began with a stunt. In the summer of 1854, an engineer called Elisha Graves Otis gave a demonstration of his new safety device. Otis had himself hoisted into the air on a platform secured on either side by guide-rails and — at a suitably dramatic height — cut the cable.

June 27, 2014 at 12:32PM
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