Speaking of elevators used in buildings and condominiums has become "common sense" without any doubt that a ride to move up and down floors is necessary, but from about 2016 it is necessary to change ...

The world’s first horizontala and vertical elevator can literally open up new directions of travel in underground transport hubs. MULTI breaks the 160-year tradition of rope-driven elevators and has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For more than 160 years, elevators have gone up and down. But German company ThyssenKrupp AG, the country's largest steel producer ...

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 ...

German engineers have invented a cable-less elevator that can move horizontally as well as vertically by using magnetic levitation, or maglev, technology - meaning the elevator carriage will float in ...

The elevator is going omnidirectional. German company thyssenKrupp, has developed a ropeless elevator system called MULTI. Each cabin can move horizontally as well as vertically. The technology used ...

Elevator design hasn't progressed very much during the past 160 years, and still comprises cabins which move vertically in a shaft supported by cables. This is inefficient and limiting, taking up a ...

Standing over a medieval town in Germany is one of the country’s tallest towers and inside, an invention that its creators hope will revolutionise the shape of cities, the ThyssenKrupp Multi Elevator ...

CHICAGO, Nov. 17, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- TIME magazine has named the MULTI elevator system by thyssenkrupp Elevator as one of its "25 Best Inventions of 2017." Unveiled on June 22, 2017, to the public ...

A century and a half ago, the invention of the passenger elevator triggered an urban revolution. All of a sudden, buildings taller than four or five storeys could be built and the result was ...