Lift Gallery

The Pain-Proof Man & Captain Ringman Jack - Ripley's

Arthur Plumhoff The Human Pincushion - The Pain-Proof Man (left) and Captain Ringman Jack, who lifted weights through holes through his breasts! - Both performers at Robert Ripley's "Believe-it-or-not" Odditorium - at A Century of Progress, the International Exposition (World's Fair) held in Chicago from 1933 to 1934. Date: 1933

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

London Fire Brigades organisation and equipment

A selection of small drawings of the events that take place in 1937, when a call by a pedestrian seeing flames and smoke to the very end when the fire has been put out and the fire men are at a canteen van having a hot drink.
1937

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

1937, Breathing, Brigade, Building, Communication, Communications, Davis, Emergence, Engine, Equipment, Exchange, Fighter, Fighting, Fire, Fireman, Firemen, Gas, Headquarters, Lift, London, Map, Maps, Mask, Pumps, Station, Telephone

Paris, France - La Tour Eiffel, Otis Elevators

Paris, France - La Tour Eiffel, Otis Elevators. The Otis elevator in the Eiffel Tower, built by the American Elevator Company. first view shows a car filled with fifty passengers with the front removed to show the interior. Figure B shows one leg of the Tower at the base, showing the actual incline. 1 marks the hydraulic cylinder, 2, the travelling multiplying pulleys, 2 stationary multiplying pulleys, 4, double landing-platform and 5 the ascending car, moving on trucks at angle shown to the first storey where, rounding a sharp curve, it continues on different angles to the second storey rising 420 ft in one minute. 6 shows the cables lifting the car and 6A the same cables returning to cylinder. The picture on the right is a general view of the 1000 foot tower, built as the centrepiece of the Paris International Exhibition in 1889 Date: 1889

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans