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Conference Paper

Author
Kemp, Deane; Venus, Richard
Title
"The latest and most up-todate pattern": Vertical transportation in early Adelaide buildings
In
2015 South Australian Engineering Heritage Conference - Transactions [Fourth South Australian Engineering Heritage Conference - Adelaide 15 May 2015]
Imprint
Engineers Australia, South Australia Division, Adelaide, 2015, pp. 85-98
Abstract

Adelaide's oldest surviving lift has been standing quietly, unloved and unremarked, for more than twenty years while the fate of the building that housed it was being decided. Now that the building has been given a $10 million makeover, the quaint old lift is once again seeing the light of day (although not in service) and this is an appropriate time to re-examine its history. The ability to carry out detailed searches of Australian newspapers through the National Library's Trove website has enabled us to discover more about vertical transportation in Adelaide's buildings - initially powered by water high up in the Torrens Gorge and then by direct current electricity generated in the Grenfell Street power station. This paper tells the story of Adelaide's early lifts, both hydraulic and electric.

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