I guess it makes sense that there's an elevator of the year award, though it's never something I'd have thought of.

The photo of one of the brake assembly components mounted to a welded tubular skid, bolted to a large structure of I-beams, bolted to another I-beam skid which is bolted to the floor, is tickling me as slightly humorous.

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mysterydip 3 hours ago | parent [-]

“this is just temporary,” said the construction worker in 1907

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bluGill 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I'm sure they thought it was a good idea given the constraints of the time. They also lacked a lot of modern knowledge and so couldn't do it the new way. Likely if someone had tried the new way at the time they would - rightly - criticism how unsafe and unreliable it would be. Modern engineering and electronics have made a lot of improvements in the last 120 years, which in turn makes the modern stuff a good choice now.

	▲	mysterydip 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Oh, definitely. I just saw a funny parallel with projects even today, where something is done to make something work at the time (and we’ll make it better later), and later never arrives.