Absolutely beautiful! And the simplicity makes a great demonstration of how these mechanical processes are really simple processors. This is boolean... every switch is on or off, 1 or 0. It's binary but, in series, conditions of and/or/not exist. But beyond my nerdery, it's just a beautiful piece of functioning history!
A fantastic feat of engineering with the floor selector array, this one is huge! From what I can see it's an earlier version of the well known pie plate floor selector, with the chain linkage in the hoist way. No arcing from the magnetic motor starter's contacts, when the circuit opened. Traction machine runs smooth. Preserve this elevator, it's engineering history.
Worked in the trade for over 50yrs but still know nothing. However that ‘selector’ (all those revolving contacts on the back) is one of the first automatic elevators. It’s kinda like a dinosaur bone found in a tarpit.
I'd travel from the UK all the way over to where you are to film something like that! So cool and so rare!! What type of building was this installed in?
Nice machine last long long time. But elevator with computer short of life. All computers wash machines or dryer or oven or stove or vehicles much more are short of life.
