You probably don't think twice when stepping into an elevator. It's just there, ready to whisk you up to your hotel room on the 30th floor of a Vegas casino or down to the underground parking garage.

Three elevator doors in corridor of office building image from Shutterstock.com. The world we live in has been shaped, in deep and profound ways, by technologies we barely think about. Lifted is a ...

The types of elevators a community has used in its history can tell you something about its fascination with upward mobility. In the 19th century in Schuylkill County, the industrial revolution ...