Meet the world’s first electric elevator! For the first time ever several people could be transported vertically by an electric elevator – at 1.8 kilometers per hour up to a height of 40 meters. This invention by Werner von Siemens was in fact a vertically moving locomotive. 🚂 It was presented by Siemens in Mannheim, Germany, in 1880. Throughout time #elevators have opened the opportunity to travel independently and safely between building floors in all sorts of buildings. 🏢 Today, #IoT and di