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Inside Germany’s 246m elevator test tower, the facility where next-generation skyscraper elevators are proven in real conditions
The TK Elevator Test Tower in Rottweil is not a skyscraper, it’s a full-scale laboratory built to certify the technologies that will move people through the next generation of megatall buildings. This ...
Introduction -- Ch. 1. Technological origins: freight hoists in England and America, 1800-1860 -- Ch. 2. Ascending rooms and vertical railways: the passenger elevator, 1800-1860 -- Ch. 3. An emerging ...
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The world's first elevator was powered by steam, not electricity; it debuted in New York 169 years ago
The world's first commercial elevator was inaugurated in New York on March 23, 1857. This steam-powered elevator traveled at a speed of 40 feet per minute and had a ...read more In today's skyscraper, ...
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