Elevators With Other
Driving Machines
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Image 1 
The Copper Queen Mine in Bisbee, Arizona, U.S.A.
This looks like a steam or compressed air driven machine...
Image provided by: Roy Rodgers
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Image 2 
A "vertical platform lift" on a boat. I think this
is called a lever hydraulic driving machine.
Image provided by: Kelly "Popeye" Porter
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Image 3 
Mount Saint Michael in Normandy, France
An original gearless winding-drum machine...
Image provided by: Pierre Trudeau
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Image 4
Elevation of the "driving machine"...
Image provided by: Pierre Trudeau
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Image 5 
The "car"...
Image provided by: Pierre Trudeau
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Image 6 
The "hoistway"...
Image provided by: Pierre Trudeau
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Image 7 
Another view of the entire "hoistway"...
This unit is provided with bush "buffers"...
Image provided by: Pierre Trudeau
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Image 8
This appears to be a hand elevator (hand-operated)...
Image provided by: Will Smith
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Image 9
What was once a hand elevator space is now a living area...
Image provided by: Norman Rockwell
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Image 10 
(1 of 2)
A hand-operated library dumbwaiter in New York, New York, U.S.A.
Image provided by: Charles Drew
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Image 11 
(2 of 2)
The bottom landing...
Image provided by: Charles Drew
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Image 12
A concentration camp cadaver elevator in Strasbourg, France
Image provided by: Eli Friedman
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Image 13 (1 of 3)
The Country Place Hotel in Fayetteville, Texas, U.S.A.
This hand-operated elevator was in operation when this was a hospital...
Image provided by: Mary Sternbrenner
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Image 14 (2 of 3)
Another angle...
Image provided by: Mary Sternbrenner
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Image 15 (3 of 3)
A diagram of the hand-operated elevator...
Is that second rope connecting the car and
counterweight part of the safety or braking device?
Image provided by: Mary Sternbrenner
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Image 16
Alma College for Ladies in St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada
Hand-operated and it appears to be roped 2:1...
Image provided by: Freddy McMartin
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Image 17
A hand-operated elevator in a grain elevator...
You had better be paying attention when
you step on or off of the platform!
Image provided by: Rick Roberts
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Image 18
Looking up the hoistway of a different hand-operated elevator. Wood guides...of course.
Image provided by: Rick Roberts
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Image 19 (1 of 2)
An old elevator drive in Germany...
Image provided by: Craig Kilborne
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Image 20 (2 of 2)
That was eventually replaced by this drive.
Image provided by: Craig Kilborne
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Image 21 
(1 of 2)
A hand-operated driving machine in the Laughlin Building...
City of Mount Vernon, Washington, U.S.A.
Image provided by: George Washington
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Image 22 
(2 of 2)
A close-up of this driving machine...
Image provided by: George Washington
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Image 23
I have no idea what this is...perhaps a selector?
It looks cool though...doesn't it?!
Image provided by: Herbie T. Mann
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Image 24 (1 of 3)
How about a vacuum elevator?
No way? Way!!
Image "borrowed" from: Daytona Elevator
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Image 25 (2 of 3)
I hope she's not calling her lawyer about the pictures I "borrowed!"
Image "borrowed" from: Daytona Elevator
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Image 26 (3 of 3)
The whole package...
Image "borrowed" from: Daytona Elevator
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Image 27
Awaiting a new suspension rope...
Image provided by: Sharon Stonehedge
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Image 28
See...back to work lifting water!
Image provided by: Sharon Stonehedge
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Image 29 
Franklin Delano Roosevelt's hand-operated home elevator - Hyde Park, New York, U.S.A.
The man who said, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself” was actually deathly afraid of fires!
Image provided by: Willis Syrius
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Image 30
A child labor camp in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
Just kidding...I think it's a museum for kids...
Image provided by: Herbie T. Mann
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