You probably don't think twice when stepping into an elevator. It's just there, ready to whisk you up to your hotel room on the 30th floor of a Vegas casino or down to the underground parking garage.

Editor’s Note: Read more unknown and curious design origin stories here. The first passenger elevator got off to a slow start. Installed in 1857 at the Haughwout Department Store in New York, it was ...

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” For anyone that is interested in the life and death of the great American grain elevators, mills, and silos, the Buffalo History Museum ...

"Hearst Magazines and AOL may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." At the end of their shift, 104 miners crowded into an elevator cage deep inside Vaal Reefs' No. 2 shaft ...

PRESTON — Venture into downtown Preston, and it’s tough to miss the towering, cherry-red grain elevator. At the turn of the 20th century, this elevator served as a bustling commercial hub with farmers ...