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  2. Loretto Chapel - Wikipedia

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    The chapel was commissioned by the Sisters of Loretto for their girls' school, Loretto Academy, in 1873. Archbishop Jean-Baptiste Lamy had brought in two French architects, Antoine Mouly and his son Projectus, to work on the St. Francis Cathedral project, and suggested that the Sisters could make use of their services on the side to build a much-needed chapel for the academy. [4]

  3. List of ancient spiral stairs - Wikipedia

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    The spiral stair is a type of stairway which, due to its complex helical structure, has been introduced relatively late into architecture. Although the oldest example dates back to the 5th century BC, [ 1 ] it was only in the wake of the influential design of the Trajan's Column that this space-saving new type permanently caught hold in ancient ...

  4. Stairs - Wikipedia

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    A stairlift is a mechanical device for lifting wheelchairs up and down stairs. For sufficiently wide stairs, a rail is mounted to the treads of the stairs, or attached to the wall. A chair is attached to the rail and the person on the chair is lifted as the chair moves along the rail.

  5. MikoÅ‚ajowski House in Tarnów - Wikipedia

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    The floors on the upper floor are made of wooden planks. A spiral wooden staircase leads from the upper floor to the unused attic. [5] View of the base of the spiral staircase. The façade of the MikoÅ‚ajowski House is modest, unplastered, asymmetrical, and three-bayed. [5] [10] There are no architectural divisions. At its center is the ...

  6. Bramante Staircase - Wikipedia

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    The modern 'Bramante' spiral stairs of the Vatican Museums, designed by Giuseppe Momo in 1932 The modern double helix staircase, also in the Pio-Clementine Museum, and commonly referred to as the "Bramante Staircase", was designed by Giuseppe Momo, sculpted by Antonio Maraini and realized by the Ferdinando Marinelli Artistic Foundry in 1932 and was inspired by the original Bramante Staircase.

  7. Escalator - Wikipedia

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    These forms of handrail have largely been replaced with fabric-and-rubber railings. Being made of either metal, sandwich panel, or glass, the balustrade panel supports the handrails of the escalator. It also provides additional protection for the handrail and passengers. Some escalators have direction arrows on the ends of the balustrade.

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