Thyssenkrupp has built the first rope (cable) free elevator. This will enable system like the Star Trek Turbolift which can move up down and side to side. This is elevator industry’s holy grail. It ...

Engineering firm ThyssenKrup has created a Maglev elevator that operates horizontally as well as vertically, and without cables. The firm has completed the first public tests of the technology in a ...

All around the world elevators are a very common way of moving people up and down in taller buildings. Elevators are a convenience for many of us and a requirement for the handicapped to move around ...

* 60% reduction in moving masses for an elevator with a travel height of 500 meters * 15% reduction in energy consumption for an elevator with a travel height of 500 meters * When elevator travel ...

A ride down from the top of Chicago's fourth-tallest building turned into a terrifying drop early Friday for a group of people, including a pregnant woman, who plunged 84 floors when a cable broke.

Which of the following cables and conductors, which may be of different systems, are permitted to be installed in the same raceway or traveling cable for an elevator installation? Article 620 of the ...

SAVANNAH - A dangling length of elevator cable striking a shut-off switch likely caused a Georgia couple's home elevator to stop between floors, trapping them inside until they died from heat ...