Vertical : lift escalator paternoster : a cultural history of vertical transport / general editors, Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani and Lutz Hartwig ; editors, Jeannot Simmen and Joseph Imorde ; [translated by Robin Benson and Catherine Kerkhoff-Saxon].

Title & Author:

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Berlin : Ernst & Sohn, 1994.

Description:

143 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 34 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The lift as a place of lingering / Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani -- Lifts and architecture : lift architecture / Lutz Hartwig -- The earth-rooted ascent to heaven / Jeannot Simmen -- The ascent that never wanted to end / Christoph Asendorf -- Vertical sequence : the lift in film / Norbert M. Schmitz -- "The Yankee loves the lift . . ." / Eckhard Gruber -- Lift control : yesterday and today / Gerhard Thumm -- Pictures of ascension / Joseph Imorde -- Baroque machineries for comfort / Uwe Drepper -- The exact course of an escalator / Siegfried Gronert -- By lift and magnetism into outer space / Gregor Henger -- The paternoster : a dinosaur at the end / Jeannot Simmen.

ISBN:

3433028680
9783433028681

Subject:

Elevators History.
Escalators History.
Ascenseurs et monte-charge Histoire.
Escaliers mécaniques Histoire.
Elevators.
Escalators.
Aufzug
Liften (techniek)
Cultuurgeschiedenis.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Magnago Lampugnani, Vittorio, 1951-
Hartwig, Lutz, 1946-
Simmen, Jeannot.
Imorde, Joseph, 1963-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 120117
Call No.: ID TJ1370.V4; ID:95-B1998
Status: Available

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