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Lifted : a cultural history of the elevator / Andreas Bernard ; translated from German by David Dollenmayer.
LIBRA TJ1370 .B4713 2014
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bernard, Andreas, 1969- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Geschichte des Fahrstuhls. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Elevators--History.
- Elevators.
- Elevators--Social aspects--History.
- Social aspects.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 309 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, [2014]
- Contents:
- Introduction: The History of Technology : New York, 1854
- The Breach through the Building : Organizing the Vertical
- From Attic to Penthouse : The Vertical Hierarchy of Buildings
- Controls
- Interiors.
- Notes:
- "Originally published as Die Geschichte des Fahrstuhls : über einen beweglichen Ort der Moderne, ©2006 Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag in der S. Fischer Verlag GmbH, Frankfurt am Main"--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0814787169
- 9780814787168
- 9781479880423
- 1479880426
- 9781479873487
- 1479873489
- OCLC:
- 857897837
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