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An elevator or lift is a machine that vertically transports people or freight between levels. They are typically powered by electric motors that drive traction cables and counterweight systems such as
Outside of typical elevators, shown in an office building in Portland, Oregon
This elevator to the Alexanderplatz U-Bahn station in Berlin is built with glass walls and doors, exposing the inner workings.
Elevator design by the German engineer Konrad Kyeser (1405)
Elisha Otis demonstrating his safety system, at the New York Crystal Palace, 1853
Paternoster lift
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A paternoster or paternoster lift is a passenger elevator, consisting of a chain of open compartments, each usually designed for two people, that move slowly in a loop up and down inside a building wi
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…Otis later designed a special elevator for the building. Peter Ellis, an English architect, installed the first elevators that could be described as paternoster elevators in Oriel Chambers in Liverpool in 1868. The Equitable Life Building, completed in 1870 in New York City, is thought to be the first office building…
A paternoster in Prague
Paternoster elevator in The Hague, when it was still in operation
Paternoster lift at the Parliament House of Finland
Paternoster in the House of Industry, Vienna (offices of the Federation of Austrian Industries), built c. 1910