A lift for passengers. The first passenger elevator ever built was that in the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York. See Notes and Queries, 10 S. ix. 67.
1883. The boy laughed and fled. He did not trust the elevator, but almost flew down the stairs to the office of the manager.—E. E. Hale, ‘Dick’s Christmas,’ Harper’s Mag., lxvi. p. 275/1 (Jan.). (N.E.D.)
