Anyone who works in an office building will be familiar with the unwritten rules From 1843mag
n March 23rd 1857, the world’s first passenger lift started carrying customers up and down the Haughwout Building, a five-storey department store in New York. It had been installed by Elisha Otis, inventor of a device that prevented the elevator from falling if its cable snapped. The owner of the department store thought the novelty of a lift would attract curious shoppers, who might then stay and buy things.
Most customs governing lift interactions emerged in a less proscriptive way. Anyone who works in an office building will be familiar with the unwritten rule that the inhabitants of a lift should always divide the space in the lift equally between them; it is considered impolite not to stand as far as possible from other riders. Another convention is that conversation should be kept to a minimum, with riders staying silent or exchanging curt greetings at most.
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