INTERIOR TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM

I, “WALKALATOR/TRAVELATOR”
1. HISTORY

 The first moving walkway debuted at World’s Columbian Exposition 1893,

in Chicago, Illinois.

TWO DIVISIONS:
1. Passengers were seated
2. Riders could stand or walk

 Six years later a moving walkway was also presented to the public
at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1900.

THREE ELEVATED PLATFORMS:

3. Stationary
4. Moderate speed
5. Six miles an hour

 The first commercial moving walkway in the United States was installed
in 1954 in Jersey City, NJ, inside the Hudson & Manhattan Railroad Erie
station, at the Pavonia Terminal.

6. Named the "Speedwalk“

7. built by Goodyear
8. it was 277 ft (84.5 m) long
moved up a 10 percent grade
at a speed of 1.5 mph (2.4 km/h)

 The first moving walkway in an airport was installed in 1958 at Love

Field in Dallas, Texas.

II. “ESCALATOR”
2. HISTORY

 The word escalator was coined by combining the Latin word for
steps— “scala”—with the word “elevator.”

 Nathan Ames, a patent solicitor from Saugus, Massachusetts, is credited

with patenting the first "escalator" in 1859, despite the fact that no working model of his
design was ever built.

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 INTERIOR TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM

 On March 15, 1892, Jesse W. Reno patented the "Endless Conveyor or Elevator” History.

 Reno, a graduate of Lehigh University, produced the first working escalator (he actually called it
the "inclined elevator") and installed it alongside the Old Iron Pier at Coney Island, New York
City in 1896.

 This particular device was little more than an inclined belt

with cast-iron slats or cleats on the surface for traction and
traveled along a 25° incline.

III. “ELEVATOR/LIFTS”
3. HISTORY

 Roman architect Vitruvius reported that Archimedes built his

first elevator in 236 BC. Elevators were mentioned as cabs on
a hemp rope and powered by hand or by animals.

 In 1852, Elisha Otis introduced the safety elevator, which

prevented the fall of the cab if the cable broke. The design of
the Otis safety elevator is somewhatsimilar to one type still
used today.

 In 1874, J.W. Meaker patented a method which permitted lift doors to open and
close safely.

 In 1887, American Inventor Alexander Miles of Duluth, Minnesota patented a lift

with automatic doors that would close off the lift shaft.

 In 1888 Nikola Tesla invented the first practicable AC motor and with it the
polyphase power transmission system. Tesla continued his work on the AC motor
in the years to follow at the Westinghouse company.

9. The Equitable Life Building completed in 1870 in New York City

was the first office building to have passenger lifts. They served 8 floors.
10. The Tallest building in the world is currently The Burj Khalifa in Dubai with 160
floors.
11. Another successful Lerch Bates lift design.

REFERENCE:

https://www.slideshare.net/MarillaAngelieOrata/walkalator
https://www.slideshare.net/NurulAdha2/lift-29150998?qid=725e5c45-e1a9-4448-bc5a-
03bfc47bd5eb&v=&b=&from_search=26
https://www.slideshare.net/arabhinavknp/escalator-127197521?qid=c0cb18b1-deb4-4c9e-b1c2-
19d12813b03d&v=&b=&from_search=2

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