General Museums
Art galleries, collections of antiquities, historic homes, and museums devoted to history, culture, personalities, and other themes
Art galleries, collections of antiquities, historic homes, and museums devoted to history, culture, personalities, and other themes
Harrods of London installed a novelty in 1898: the world's first true escalator (to be fair, an inclined moving belt with metal bars for traction did make its debut two years earlier on Coney Island). The oddness of a moving staircase so unnerved many shoppers that employees were stationed near it with smelling salts and cognac to help revive those overcome with fear.