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OCR: Alift is a device for taking people or goods from one floor to another. The first lift ever recorded was built in 1743 for King Louis XIV of France However the first public lift was not unveiled until 1857 when Elisha Graves Otis fitted a lift into New York store. The first lift in Europe was built at the Paris Exhibition of 1867 The inven tion of the lift allowed the development of the skyscraper from TIME the 1880s. Alift usually consi ists of : box-like structure sus pended by motor- driven cables There are safety MAP ratchets along the sides of the shaft. The first lifts were steam powered but hydraulic and then electric lifts were common TOPIC from the early 1900s Someone using modern lift LIFT OFF ON CD INFO NOTES BACK STORIES Elish Exhibitior inventior skys craper 1880 consists pend ...