Our hoist machine is located overhead, and this is a traction machine, so it is an evolution beyond the winding from elevator. This is the drive ship. This is the gear box, and this is original from 1913. It is a heavyduty design that we really do not see any more today. That is probably part of the reason why this elevator has already lasted close to 100 years. This is the break for the voice machine teh brake. We have the original controller here. Fortunately, the power is turned off. This room was built in 1913, but the National Elevator cut actually was not introduced until 1921. Tell us about this antique controller. What makes it different from a modern controller . The elevator is running on the original d. C. Power. Really simple in operation. Does not include a lot of the features we would have in an elevator today, Automatic Door operation, dispatching, push button operation. None of those features are present, but this is the original from 1913. On this side, we have all the
She was not happy that her husband had been elected president. She was not looking forward to being the first lady. The problem was of course, that he died only one month into his presidency, and she never made it to washington. In 1836, when john tyler resigned from the United States senate, he and his wife laetitia and her family moved to williamsburg. It is right here that laetitia tyler suffered her stroke in 1839 and john tyler learned that he was elected as Vice President William Henri harrison, and it is also here in the spring of 1841 where he was informed that he became tenth president of the United States, and that laetitia tyler learned that she became the first lady. She has another terrible stroke and guys. Her husband goes into great morning and then he meets Julia Gardiner who is another young love in her twenties. Julia is the madonna of the first ladies. She loved publicity. She actually posed as a model which was frowned upon. She was bewitching. They had a total of a
Test captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 thank you for telling us about your scholarship and we look forward to learning more about this period of American History through the writings of julia tyler. Thanks for your time. Thank you very much. We have a few minutes left. I want to get a couple more calls in. Next one is a call from bill in fishers, indiana. Hi. Caller enjoying your show very much and your two guests as well very much. I was wondering was julia a religious person and i was wondering about her conversion to catholicism and how that influenced her later life. Do you know. I will leave julia to talk about her. Was she religious . Not really, but she does join the Catholic Church later in life and im not sure why she actually does that. Perhaps the church gains more by that than she does because theres always been that tension between protestants and catholics in this country, even though we dont have an official religion, most people think of america as
Are given more time to question the lorrys driver. Also on the programme. Let us in republican lawmakers disrupt an impeachment hearing by storming the room. They say the investigation shouldnt take place behind closed doors, but will their protest make a difference . And, winning the world series one game at a time the Washington Nationals beat houston in game two. It could be one of the sports biggest upsets. Hello and welcome. Im Michelle Fleury in washington, Christian Fraser is in london. Borisjohnson has written to the labour Leaderjeremy Corbyn setting out proposals for a general election on december 12th. In the letter he says he is extremely sceptical, that parliaments habit of voting to delay brexit will change and a further delay he says will do nothing other than waste more time. The Prime Minister says he will be putting forward an election motion for parliament to vote on, on monday. It would require a 2 3 majority to pass. Mrjohnson says if labour votes in favour of the
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