Steps are an example of the inclined plane, which, as we learned in school, is one of the six simple machines. Here, for the so-inclined, are four hometown simple machines.
Steps turning on the side of a grain silo at Producer’s Corp. Grain Elevators, 2000 S. Main St. (1930).
Spiral stairs at Saunders Park along Marine Creek at the Stockyards. The park is named for Thomas Bailey Saunders, whose family has been ranching in Texas since 1850.
Spiral fire escape stairs of TWU’s Administration Building (1903). The fire escape was added in 1963.
Curved staircase of the rear entry of the Swift meatpacking plant (1902) on NW 23rd Street.
