Today I Found Out

Who Invented the Elevator? (2015x81)

Fecha de emisión: Jul 20, 2015

→Subscribe for new videos every day! http://bit.ly/todayifoundoutsubscribe →Why Do Superheroes Wear Their Underwear on the Outside?: http://bit.ly/1Ow7J0K Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from Today I Found Out: The Real Moby Dick http://bit.ly/1TTraUf Why Black Friday is Called Black Friday http://bit.ly/1Ikvrfm Why Superheroes Wear Their Underwear On The Outside http://bit.ly/1HLvFLb In this video: The history of the elevator, if you define it as a platform that can move people and objects up and down, is actually a rather long one. Rudimentary elevators are known to have been in use in ancient Rome as far back as 336 B.C., with the first reference of one built by the talented Archimedes. Want the text version? http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/05/history-elevator/ Resources/Further Reading: http://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/inventions/who-invented-the-elevator.htm http://inventors.about.com/od/estartinventions/a/Elevator.htmhttp://inventors.about.com/od/estartinventions/a/Elevator.htm http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/theymadeamerica/whomade/otis_hi.html http://www.theelevatormuseum.org/e/e-2.htmhttp://www.theelevatormuseum.org/e/e-2.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elevator Image Credit (Thank you) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Elisha_OTIS_1854.jpg http://www.roman-empire.net/articles/pics/gladiators-colosseum/elevator-02.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7a/Louis_XV%3B_Buste.jpg https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/3b/ad/c6/3badc6c0a30269f51e7e6b3ed0014115.jpg http://www.elevatorrater.com/images/1823.jpg https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/e7/03/4a/e7034a8eab37e25542088338dc0e1aa7.jpg http://collections.mcny.org/Doc/MNY/Media/TR3/7/2/e/a/MNY324492.jpg http://elevatorsp5.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/5/3/14537380/4773613.jpg http://f.hypotheses.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/1394/files/2