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  • Thumbnail for Elevator
    An elevator (American English) or lift (Commonwealth English) is a machine that vertically transports people or freight between levels. They are typically...
    146 KB (17,710 words) - 02:31, 15 November 2024
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    a Faraday cage. It is often used by shoplifters to steal RFID-tagged items. Similar containers are used to resist RFID skimming. Elevators and other rooms...
    17 KB (2,011 words) - 00:49, 9 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Courrières mine disaster
    An elevator cage at Shaft 3 was thrown to the surface, damaging the pit-head; windows and roofs were blown out on the surface at Shaft 4; an elevator cage...
    13 KB (1,607 words) - 19:17, 2 July 2024
  • elevator accidents, a 15-year-old boy was decapitated by an elevator at a furniture warehouse in Baltimore, Maryland. On 20 May 1905, three elevator accidents...
    41 KB (2,678 words) - 22:35, 22 September 2024
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    designing a flexible belt attachment to the elevator cage, and drums positioned to indicate if the elevator has reached a floor. The belt allowed for automatic...
    7 KB (855 words) - 01:15, 28 October 2024
  • Marcinelle caused 262 victims, with only 12 survivors. A mining cart on an elevator cage hit an oil pipe and electricity lines, with the resulting fire trapping...
    103 KB (10,524 words) - 23:50, 10 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Linke Wienzeile Buildings
    (1898) Balcony of Majolica House Stairway of Majolica House (1898) Elevator cage of Majolica House (1898) The other building, Linke Wienzeile 38, is...
    6 KB (725 words) - 18:04, 29 February 2024
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    landscaping Mine cage – similar to an elevator, for a shaft mine Cage, a separated enclosure in a computer colocation centre Faraday cage – an enclosure...
    10 KB (1,040 words) - 03:45, 20 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for North American B-25 Mitchell
    William F. Smith. Betty Lou Oliver, an elevator attendant, survived the impact and the subsequent fall of the elevator cage 75 stories to the basement. French...
    72 KB (9,540 words) - 04:31, 13 November 2024
  • black-and-white 1960s music video. She exited the stage through the elevator cage, ending the concert with one last kiss to her fans over the microphone...
    12 KB (1,446 words) - 09:30, 12 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Baťa's Skyscraper
    windows are unopenable, washable from the outside with the help of an elevator cage, suspended at the top of a rail ledge. In November 1944 Zlín was bombarded...
    15 KB (1,562 words) - 00:19, 11 November 2024
  • recuperating from a broken hip, becomes trapped between floors in the cage-like elevator she has installed in her mansion. With her son, Malcolm (William Swan)...
    11 KB (1,382 words) - 04:33, 8 October 2024
  • Vaal Reefs mining disaster (category Elevator accidents)
    and fell into the Number 2 mine shaft. At the time, a double-storey elevator cage was ascending the shaft from level 62 1,859 m (6,100 ft) below the surface...
    16 KB (1,575 words) - 11:42, 4 June 2024
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    Shaft sinking (redirect from Mine cage)
    the hoist on steel wire rope. It functions in a similar manner to an elevator. Cages may be single-, double-, or rarely triple-deck, always having multiple...
    21 KB (2,977 words) - 17:21, 31 October 2024
  • Wikiquote has quotations related to The Ersatz Elevator. Book the Sixth: The Ersatz Elevator is the sixth novel of the children's novel series A Series...
    11 KB (1,417 words) - 21:05, 29 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Otto Wagner
    (1898) Detail of Maiolica House (1898) Stairway of Majolika-Haus (1898) Elevator cage of Maiolica House (1898) Glass bathtub at Köstlergasse (1899) The Church...
    32 KB (3,981 words) - 16:55, 19 November 2024
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    a pyramid accessed by a narrow wooden staircase. There was also an elevator cage, decorated with rosettes that matched the exterior decorations. The...
    271 KB (23,334 words) - 15:11, 8 September 2024
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    (/ˌpeɪtərˈnɒstər/, /ˌpɑː-/, or /ˌpæ-/) or paternoster lift is a passenger elevator which consists of a chain of open compartments (each usually designed for...
    35 KB (3,934 words) - 17:03, 28 October 2024
  • being held in a high rise elevator by a man calling himself Galileo, who demands a ransom and threatens to drop the elevator cage unless it is delivered...
    29 KB (21 words) - 23:02, 6 May 2024
  • Blackout (2008 American film) (category Films set in elevators)
    shatters. The ledge she is holding on to collapses and she falls into the elevator cage. Karl has flipped out because he thinks his daughter knows his secret...
    9 KB (1,189 words) - 04:53, 7 October 2024
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