As technology improves and our world continuously changes, a host of occupations are no longer necessary and have been rendered obsolete. These include the neighborhood milkman, the bowling alleys ...

The first passenger elevator got off to a slow start. Installed in 1857 at the Haughwout Department Store in New York, it was shut down after just three years because customers refused to accept it.

Mr. Smith is the founder and executive director of the Center for Building in North America. My mission to understand the American elevator began in 2021 when I came down with a crippling postviral ...