The history of the elevator, if you define it as a platform that can move people and objects up and down, is actually a rather long one. Rudimentary elevators are known to have been in use in ancient ...

In 1894, some ten years before automobiles mainstreamed horizontal transportation, the Otis Elevator Company installed the world’s first push-button elevator. Arguably this small vehicle did more to ...

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 ...

Elevators haven't changed much in the past 160 years: one cabin in one shaft that travels up and down. Now, German elevator manufacturer ThyssenKrupp has developed the world's first elevator that ...

Elevator is first of three on site to be modernized with new Otis elevators "The new elevator is more than a way up, it's a symbol of where we're headed," said Ron Sevart, Space Needle President & CEO ...