In 1852, Elisha Otis introduced the safety elevator, which prevented the fall of the cab if the cable broke.
It always kills me that in movies, plummeting elevators when cables break is a thing. For 150 years elevators have been designed for that NOT to happen.
The first elevator is credited to Archimedes is 236 BC
It always kills me that in movies, plummeting elevators when cables break is a thing. For 150 years elevators have been designed for that NOT to happen.