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Americans take more than 20 billion elevator rides every year — and keeping them safe is an expensive proposition. Zachary Crockett makes small talk.
- SOURCES:
- Frank Christensen, president of the International Union of Elevators Constructors.
- Shannon Moore, service mechanic for the International Union of Elevator Constructors Local 8.
- Brian O'Connell, senior vice president of the Eastern U.S. at Otis Elevators.
- Stephen Smith, executive director of the Center for Building in North America.
- RESOURCES:
- "Elevators," by Stephen Smith (Center for Building in North America, 2024).
- "Elevator and Escalator Fact Sheet," (National Elevator Industry, 2020).
- "The Evolution of Elevators: Physical-Human Interface, Digital Interaction, and Megatall Buildings," by Stephen Nichols (Frontiers of Engineering, 2017).
- Lifted: A Cultural History of the Elevator, by Andreas Bernard (2014).
- EXTRAS:
- "Up and Then Down," by Nick Paumgarten (The New Yorker, 2008).
- "World's Tallest Towers."
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