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How the Escalator Forever Changed Our Sense of Space

By Megan Carpenter · Smithsonian Magazine · June 2019

How the Escalator Forever Changed Our Sense of Space

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"Sure, the 19th-century invention transformed shopping. But it also revolutionized how we think about the built environment"

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