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To: Red Badger
along with their vertical counterpart the escalator

Escalators had been in use on the London Underground over a dozen years by 1925- trial installation at one station in 1911, general use in 1912. First department store escalator in 1899.

Writer probably should have fact checked himself using Google.

7 posted on 01/02/2025 12:57:50 PM PST by PAR35
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To: PAR35

“Writer probably should have fact checked himself using Google.”

I actually had a Reddit poster tell me someone who died before 2000 should have checked with Wikipedia before making their comments.

I responded they should have checked with Wikipedia to figure out when the guy died.

Lol.


9 posted on 01/02/2025 1:02:43 PM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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To: PAR35

WOW..

I didn’t know.

Toilets go back way further than I thought also :)


22 posted on 01/02/2025 2:55:53 PM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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