An oldie but a goodie: Nick Paumgarten explores the lives of elevators.

The Morning News http://bit.ly/2lgjZ1u

A single elevator can climb no higher than seventeen hundred feet. A hoist rope any longer is too heavy to be practical; at thirty-two hundred feet, it will snap, like a stream of spit in a stairwell.

↩︎ The New Yorker

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