Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1890 — A Novel and Cheap Elevator. [ARTICLE]

A Novel and Cheap Elevator.

A Berlin inventor has devised a simple and inexpensive elevator for private dwellings, in place of tbo ordinary staircase, which may suggest to some inventor a better means of accomplishing tne same object. The Berlin invention is on the same principle of the inclined railway, and the motive power is the city water which is 'applied in the cellar; each flight has its separate chair, so that for example, one can ascend from the first to the second story while another is oil his way front the second to the third, or still another is descending from the fifth to the fourth, 'f he chair being Only of the width of the human body, leaves a free passage Jor any one who wishes to walk up or down instead of riding. It is set in motion by a simple pressure of one of its arras, and after it has been used it slides back to the bottom step, its descent being regulated in -such a manner tfiat the passenger, is carried with entire safety. The motive power is, of course, more or less expensive, according to the cost of water, this being, it is stated, at the rate of a little more than one-tenth of a cent only for each trip. —Scientific American.