Sentence examples for safe elevator from inspiring English sources

As architects reached upward, there was the trial of inventing a safe elevator so that buildings could become skyscrapers.

One Police Plaza has become a crucible of frustrated senior officials, where veterans say the only safe elevator conversation returns to lunch and retirement plans.

"Our goal is to provide the best and safest elevator operation to our residents not only at Wagner Houses, but at all of our developments," Mr. Marder said in a statement.

The increase in urban commerce in the United States in the second half of the 19th century augmented the need for city business space, and the installation of the first safe passenger elevator (in the Haughwout Department Store, New York City) in 1857 made practical the erection of buildings more than four or five stories tall.

A few months later, Bridgen heard three female M.P.s in the tea room complaining that they did not feel safe sharing an elevator with Daniel Poulter, one of his colleagues.

The electrical contacts, part of electrical switches known as relays, are crucial to the smooth and safe running of an elevator.

The building's owner, Michael Laub, said the elevator is safe and defended his efforts to keep it running, despite what he said were shrinking profits from Bronx rental buildings.

Building managers also sent out mass e-mails to offer assurances that their elevators were safe.

"Still, riding an elevator is safer than walking in a straight line," Wilk said.

Elisha Graves Otis developed the first safe steam-powered roped elevators with toothed guide rails and catches in the late 1850s.

— Most neurologists conduct concussion assessments in the safe, beige-walled, soft-elevator-music confines of a medical office.