A Short History of Tall Buildings - Episode 1 Imagine : Season 4 Episode 101
TV-14 BBC One 1h 00m
Aired: May 11th, 2005 @ 12:00 AM EST on BBC One
It begins with the extraordinary story of the technology that made it all possible: steel cage construction and the lift. Elisha Otis’s demonstration of his safety lift was the star turn at the New York Worlds Fair in 1854, run by the great American showman, PT Barnum. This streak of showmanship and element of popular entertainment runs through the New York skyscraper’s golden age.
