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2. Car elevator - Wikipedia

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   American politician and former presidential candidate Mitt Romney included a car elevator in his 2008 proposal for rebuilding his beach house in La Jolla, San Diego.The elevator is intended to transport cars between floors in a planned split-level, four-vehicle garage. [3]

3. Belt manlift - Wikipedia

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   Belt manlift in a parking garage. A belt manlift or manlift is a device for moving passengers between floors of a building. It is a simple belt with steps or platforms and handholds rather than an elevator with cars. Its design is similar to that of a paternoster lift. The belt is a loop that moves in a single direction, so one can go up or ...

4. Skyscraper design and construction - Wikipedia

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   In most building designs, the weight of the structure is much larger than the weight of the material that it will support beyond its own weight. In technical terms, the dead load , the load of the structure, is larger than the live load , the weight of things in the structure (people, furniture, vehicles, etc.).

5. Jack (device) - Wikipedia

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   A jack which can lift a mobile home. A jack is a mechanical lifting device used to apply great forces or lift heavy loads. A mechanical jack employs a screw thread for lifting heavy equipment. A hydraulic jack uses hydraulic power. [1] The most common form is a car jack, floor jack or garage jack, which lifts vehicles so that maintenance can be ...

6. Elevator - Wikipedia

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   Stage lifts and orchestra lifts are specialized elevators, typically powered by hydraulics, that are used to raise and lower entire sections of a theater stage. For example, Radio City Music Hall has four such elevators: an orchestra lift that covers a large area of the stage, and three smaller lifts near the rear of the stage.

7. Why Ina Garten Only Buys Extra Large Eggs and Never Brings ...

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   Ina Garten has certain go-tos in her kitchen — and when stepping into someone else’s.. The Barefoot Contessa star shared her tips for cooking and hosting during a live Q&A with PEOPLE Senior ...