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Vent: I found out the first elevator code book was only 16 pages long
I was reading an old trade magazine from the 1920s at the library and it said the original safety code for elevators was just a small pamphlet. It's wild to think how much has changed from that to the big books we have now. What's the oldest code rule you guys still see in the field that feels like it's from that time?
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river_rivera457mo ago
Remember the old manual rope-operated freight elevators? Still see those sometimes... feels like a museum piece.
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the_jamie7mo ago
Yeah, the manual rope elevators are a trip. I read somewhere that the old codes had a rule about the car needing to stop within a certain distance if you let go of the rope. It was basically just counting floor joists as a guide, which seems crazy now.
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