Tag: elevators

Today in 1953, Jacqueline Cochran became the first woman to break the sound barrier. Then again, Cochran moved at high speed her whole career.

It was on this day in 1857 that the first commercial elevator began operating at a department store in New York City. And once elevators took off, they started shaping the world around us in some pretty big ways.

It was on a Leap Day in 1968 that the President of the United States got stuck in an elevator. We'll explain how it happened.