Using steel framing and high-speed elevators, they created their pinnacle achievement: the modern skyscraper.
Steel frames and elevators had made tall buildings achievable and urbanization made them necessary.
Some hotels put mirrors by the elevators, because people like to look at themselves.
Tom stopped in the marble elevator bank and watched for the descent of the other elevators.
Others I stumble on at openings and art fairs, at dinner parties and in elevators.
They were standing just inside the hospital, on the first floor by the elevators.
There are some high-rise buildings that are running their elevators and their stairwell lights on generators.
Nine elevators will be available to whisk the family and their guests through the mega- mansion.
Meanwhile, if you find you have a fear of elevators, how can you cope?
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Metal was protruding from handrails on the staircases, and the elevators often did not work.
But he added that the effects seen in train carriages may also apply to buses and elevators.
Hospital legal departments put up signs in elevators warning doctors and nurses not to discuss their patients.
They're putting elevators in their homes and showing off collections of jewel-encrusted watches in Indian luxury magazines.
When a sculpture becomes subject to building regulations, with elevators, stairs and washrooms, its purity is lost.
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About 270 miners were stuck in two underground coal mines in eastern India as elevators stopped working.
That means, in some cases, hospitals are throwing money at things like new elevators and valet parking.
You nodded to the same faces in the elevators riding up to galleries all along 57th Street.
Especially when you try to find your room amidst the hotel's seven wings, 23 elevators and 33 stairwells.
It touts a private entrance off the corner of the building with not one, but two private elevators.
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About 70% of Regal-Beloits gearboxes connect to motors Marathon already makes for elevators, ski lifts, fitness equipment and bowling-pin setters.
With the port crippled, grain elevators and silos along the Mississippi are quickly filling up and prices are dropping.
Space elevators are slowly making the transition from science fiction to science fact... but we're not quite there yet.
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Vistar is busy forging relationships with companies that operate digital screens in stores, malls, elevators and other public venues.
Governments can save jobs by discouraging new technology or outlawing labor-saving devices like automatic elevators and automated telephone service.
She wheeled one boy to X-ray through the maze of hallways and elevators.
Each apartment has fireplace-bedecked master suites and living rooms, 20-foot-tall great rooms, and private elevators that access every floor.
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Besides, don't people in romantic comedies (and Aerosmith songs) always meet in elevators?
The vast majority of elevators in New York City today are traction elevators.
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They make such products as home appliances, auto parts, elevators and power-generation systems.
The commercial viability of tall buildings are always undermined by the excessive space needed for structural elements and for elevators.
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