The idea of using such a facility goes back a long time. Ever since man began to live in tall buildings he has faced the problem of vertical movement of people and cargo.
As early as 236 BC, as the Roman architect Vitrucius tells us, there were various similar systems in royal palaces. Looking back at the history of the ancient Romans, we can see that they were the first to build special platforms, which were raised to a sufficient height with the help of ropes. If we leave Rome and go to Tibet or our country we will notice the first elevators, which are in the form of baskets, which raise, as e.g. in the heights of Meteora, people and goods.
In ancient Greece, Archimedes invented a hoisting mechanism that worked with ropes and pulleys and in which the hoisting ropes were wound around a winding drum by means of a "worker" and levers. By the 18th century the elevator had evolved and engine power had been applied. In 1743 Louis IE commissioned a personal elevator with a counterweight for his private apartments at Versailles. In 1833 in the Harz Mountains in Germany a system of reciprocating rods was used to lift miners up and down the mines.
In 1835 they installed in an English factory an elevator driven by belts (the "teagle"). The first hydraulic (water) pressure-driven industrial elevator appeared in 1846. As engineering improved, other lifting mechanisms quickly followed. These primitive means of vertical transportation had one major drawback. If the rope broke, the traffickers would fall with no chance of rescue. These rudimentary elevators led man to the thought of building safer elevators. Already, since the second half of the 18th century, the Industrial Revolution, which begins in England, makes new materials, such as iron and glass, more accessible. The real upheaval, however, in building materials comes in the 19th century with the spread of iron and in 1853, Elisha Otis presents the first elevator equipped with a safety system.
In America, E.G.OTIS (Figure 1) cut the ropes of the platform on which he was standing before the frightened eyes of the observers. The platform started to fall and suddenly stopped instantly. The grappling device had worked. Since then the technology in the field of elevators has made huge leaps.
