Why are Elevators Important?

An elevator is wonderful. It is really only a small room. Rooms usually stay in one place. Elevators travel up and down all day long. Sometimes a worker stands in the elevators. He or she runs it up and down. In modern elevators there is no workers. The people walk in. They know what floor they want. They push a button and the elevator goes to that floor.

It is all very fast and easy. Elevators are very important to us. Why? Think about a tall building. Maybe it has twenty floors. Maybe it has fifty or more. Who can walk up all those stairs? Maybe people can climb them one time. Can someone climb thirty floors to an office everyday?  Can small children walk up to their apartment on the twenty-fourth floor? Can their mother and father carry food up all those stairs. Of course not.

We can have high buildings because we have elevators. We could not have all the beautiful tall buildings in the world without elevators. They are really wonderful.