Did you know that March 23 is World Elevator Day? Now you do. (You’re welcome.) On that date way back in 1857, the first passenger elevator was installed in the E.V. Haughwout Building—an upscale, five-story department store in Manhattan’s SoHo neighborhood patronized by the likes of Mary Todd Lincoln. Made possible by Elisha Otis’s invention of the elevator safety brake, the creation—and eventual…
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