Frequent travelers at Atlanta's airport are familiar with the dread of seeing an escalator closed for repair, then heading for a slow, luggage-laden trudge up a set of stairs with dozens of other ...

People don’t tend to notice elevators until something goes wrong. Unless one is slow, out of service or crammed full of people, we get on and off without much thought. Elevator makers haven’t given it ...

ThyssenKrupp wants to turn elevators sideways, move people around faster and fix products before they break. The company, whose North American headquarters is in Chicago, unveiled the latest in a crop ...

The cash-strapped city of Los Angeles just agreed to spend nearly $41 million on escalators, moving walkways and elevators at LAX as part of a contract with the Schindler Elevator Corporation. The ...

The targeted maximum wait time in office building elevators is 20 seconds—it just feels like 2 minutes when you’re in a rush. But how quickly are the elevators actually moving?

We ride them every day, to traverse a sprawling airport, or change floors in an office building or a shopping mall, and most of us hardly give a second thought to these hard working people movers. But ...

Mumbai, Nov 28 (PTI) The Maharashtra cabinet today approved a proposal to scrap the existing Maharashtra Elevators Act, 1939 and bring a new law which will also regulate escalators and moving walkways ...

After enduring months of elevators that lurch precariously, stop between floors and often cease functioning altogether, some residents of Sansom Place feel they are getting the shaft. "They're ...

Visual prelude -- Preface: vertical, horizontal, diagonal / Dr. Henry Petroski -- 1. Turning point: conveyance and the Paris Exposition of 1900 / Alisa Goetz -- 2. Designing non-space: the evolution ...

Control surfaces on aircraft — the moving elevators, flaps, and ailerons on the trailing edges of the wings and tail — have long been used by pilots to control a plane’s pitch, roll, low-speed lift, ...