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What Elevators Teach Us About Technology, Design, and Human Behavior

What Elevators Teach Us About Technology, Design, and Human Behavior

Update: 2024-10-03

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The elevator made the modern city possible: No elevators, no skyscrapers. Today, people are working on entirely new kinds of elevators that can go higher and faster than ever. On today’s show, we talk about those innovations with Lee Gray, who is possibly the world’s leading elevator historian and definitely a professor of architectural history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

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