Escalator 36
Escalator 36 :
Primary Uses and Application: (1) Department Stores/Shopping: As noted above, a few escalator types were installed in major department stores (including Harrods) before the Expo. Escalators proved instrumental in the layout and design of shopping venues in the twentieth century. By 1898, the first of Reno’s "inclined elevators" were incorporated into the Bloomingdale Bros. store at Third Avenue and 59th Street. This was the first retail application of the devices in the US, and no small coincidence, considering that Reno's primary financier was Lyman Bloomingdale, co-owner of the department store with brother Joseph Bloomingdale. The longest escalators in the Western Hemisphere, at the Wheaton station, Washington DC Metro
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