Weatherday: Going up

Buddhist monks in Laos (2006).

Another beautiful day in store. Mostly clear skies with a little cloud around midday burning off later. 

Highest temperature 15deg in light breezes from the south east. 

On this day in 1857, American inventor Elisha Otis installed the first commercial elevator, in a department store in New York. Today the Otis Elevator Company moves an estimated two billion people a day on elevators, moving walkways and escalators.

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