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Running up the center of the building is a fortresslike tower whose walls, made of two-to-three-foot-thick reinforced concrete and steel, will provide structural support for the building and fire...
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The first commercial passenger elevator, installed by Otis Elevator Company in 1857, climbed 40 feet a minute. The elevators that Mitsubishi Electric are installing in China's 2,000-foot-tall Shanghai...
View ArticleHow It Works: The World's Fastest Elevator
The first commercial passenger elevator, installed by Otis Elevator Company in 1857, climbed 40 feet a minute. The elevators that Mitsubishi Electric are installing in…
View Article9 Revolutionary Elevators From The Otis Elevator Company
Click here to enter the galleryElisha Otis, inventor of the world's first elevator safety brake, founded the Otis Elevator Company 160 years ago today. The innovative company has not only made...
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Why We Stand Where We Do In An Elevator
Step On InSteve Snodgrass via FlickrRebekah Rousi, a Ph.D. student in cognitive science, conducted an ethnographic study of elevator behavior in two of the tallest office buildings in Adelaide,...
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Microsoft Turns Elevator Into Artificially Intelligent Panopticon
Service ElevatorFlickr/Sam HowzitThe worst part of riding an elevator is awkwardly trying to find a direction to stare in that doesn't line up with anyone else's line of vision. The _second _worst part...
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Magnetically Levitating Elevators Could Go Up, Down, And Sideways
For more than a century, elevators have gone pretty much just up and down. Ever since the first elevator was introduced in 1854, a cable-based design has pulled the elevator car along a single shaft,...
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Magnetically Levitating Elevators Could Reshape Skylines
Maglev Elevators Open Up New Possibilities In Building DesignThyssenKruppWith the debut of passenger elevators some 150 years ago, cities were forever changed. Freed from the tyranny of stairwells,...
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Test Tower For Magnetic Levitation Elevators Almost Ready
The Future Of Elevators Will Happen HereThyssenKruppLike something out of Total Recall, the architecture firm ThyssenKrupp wants to build elevators that go up, down, and sideways.How do you test such a...
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Science A tower within a Tower: extra cladding in the middle Running up the center of the building is a fortresslike tower whose walls, made of two-to-three-foot-thick reinforced concrete and steel,...
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How It Works: World’s Fastest Elevator
Technology The first commercial passenger elevator, installed by Otis Elevator Company in 1857, climbed 40 feet a minute. The elevators that Mitsubishi Electric are installing in…
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9 Revolutionary Elevators From The Otis Elevator Company
Technology Happy 160th birthday, Otis Elevator Company! Thanks for making modern cities possible. Here are the 9 coolest Otis elevator inventions from the Popular Science archive. Click here to enter...
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Why We Stand Where We Do In An Elevator
Science Elevator riders tend to arrange themselves into mini social hierarchies. Rebekah Rousi, a Ph.D. student in cognitive science, conducted an ethnographic study of elevator behavior in two of the...
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Microsoft Turns Elevator Into Artificially Intelligent Panopticon
Technology _Going down? _[sinister laugh] The worst part of riding an elevator is awkwardly trying to find a direction to stare in that doesn't line up with anyone else's line of vision. The _second...
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Magnetically Levitating Elevators Could Go Up, Down, And Sideways
Technology Elevators: not just for elevating anymore For more than a century, elevators have gone pretty much just up and down. Ever since the first elevator was introduced in 1854, a cable-based...
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Magnetically Levitating Elevators Could Reshape Skylines
Technology They go up, down, and all around With the debut of passenger elevators some 150 years ago, cities were forever changed. Freed from the tyranny of stairwells, architects built as high as...
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Test Tower For Magnetic Levitation Elevators Almost Ready
Science Going up ... and sideways Like something out of Total Recall, the architecture firm ThyssenKrupp wants to build elevators that go up, down, and sideways. How do you test such a contraption?...
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This building hanging from an asteroid is absurd—but let’s take it seriously...
Technology Welcome to the Analemma tower and its half hour elevator rides Have you ever wanted to wake up and see the curvature of the Earth? Or wanted to live exclusively indoors? Well good news,...
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