Some of the things we use every day were invented in the distant past.

Other things were invented quite recently.

However, there's a category of inventions that have been known forever,

but no one ever really had any practical use for it until recently.

Learn more about the elevator.

Now it helped create the modern world on this episode of sponsored by You.

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If you think about it, the elevator is a pretty simple device.

Ever since we had ropes and pulleys, we had everything we need to make elevators.

It isn't surprising that the first recorded example of something like an elevator was created by Archimedes who built a

crude lifting device out of hemp rope. We know that throughout the ancient world in the

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