Season 1 Episode 1 : Bâtir toujours plus haut

Many inventions have allowed people to build bigger and better, but which one was the one that revolutionized the challenge of height? Concrete? Steel? Not really… It is in fact the elevator! Indeed, without it, who would have accepted to live on the 40th floor? From the Tower of Babel to the Jeddah Tower in Saudi Arabia, Man has always wanted to build in a more imposing and impressive way and above all to get closer and closer to the sky. What exactly are the whys and wherefores of this conquest of height? And is there a limit?