WOOLWORTH BUILDING, NEW YORK CITY.

This building, the tallest in the world, is equipped with 26 gearless

traction elevators.

Two of the elevators run from the first to the fifty-first floor with

actual travels of 679 feet 9¹⁄₂ inches and 679 feet 10¹⁄₄ inches,

respectively. There is also a shuttle elevator which runs from the

fifty-first to the fifty-fourth floor.

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