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🗓️ 20 February 2021
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0:00.0 | Some of the things we use every day were invented in the distant past. |
0:04.0 | Other things were invented quite recently. |
0:06.0 | However, there's a category of inventions that have been known forever, |
0:10.0 | but no one ever really had any practical use for it until recently. |
0:13.7 | Learn more about the elevator. |
0:15.2 | Now it helped create the modern world on this episode of sponsored by You. |
0:34.0 | 2002 was a terrible year for everyone, and I was no exception. |
0:38.0 | The industry I was involved in, the travel industry, basically vanished. |
0:42.0 | So in July 1st, I launched a podcast that I had |
0:44.8 | floating around as an idea in the back of my mind for years. Since then the |
0:49.1 | little podcast that could has been growing and it's all due to listeners like you. |
0:53.0 | I'd especially like to thank everyone who has supported the show over on Patreon, |
0:57.0 | especially at the producer level. |
0:59.0 | It really, really, and I can't stress this enough, |
1:02.0 | really helps me make this show possible. |
1:05.0 | You can get merchandise like stickers, t-shirts, and hoodies for your support as well. |
1:09.0 | Visit Patreon.com slash Everything Everywhere |
1:12.0 | to show your support for the show or just click on the link in the show notes. |
1:17.0 | If you think about it, the elevator is a pretty simple device. |
1:23.5 | Ever since we had ropes and pulleys, we had everything we need to make elevators. |
1:28.0 | It isn't surprising that the first recorded example of something like an elevator was created by Archimedes who built a |
1:34.4 | crude lifting device out of hemp rope. We know that throughout the ancient world in the |
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