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It has been well documented that the stoop served the function of keeping people and their homes separated from horse manure, which would accumulate in the streets at high rates. Horses were the main transport means in New York for decades, and thousands of them were kept in the city by common citizens.
The concept of stairs is believed to be 8000 years old, and are one of the oldest buildings in architectural history. [4] The oldest example of spiral stairs dates back to the 400s BC. [5] Medieval architecture saw experimentation with many different shapes, and the Renaissance even more so with varied designs. [5]
A staircase or stairway is one or more flights of stairs leading from one floor to another, and includes landings, newel posts, handrails, balustrades, and additional parts. [4] In buildings, stairs is a term applied to a complete flight of steps between two floors. A stair flight is a run of stairs or steps
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Cantilevered stairs, or floating stairs, are a type of staircase. A metal safety rail has been added to the outside of this cantilevered stone staircase. A cantilever is a beam , which is anchored at only one end.
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.
Illustration from U.S. Patent#25,076: Revolving Stairs, issued August 9, 1859, to Nathan Ames. Nathan Ames, a patent attorney from Saugus, Massachusetts, is credited with patenting the first "escalator" in 1859, even though no working model of his design was ever built. His invention, the "revolving stairs", is largely speculative and the ...
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