Is only going up in the elevator getting you down? Not for much longer: ThyssenKrupp, the German steel and engineering company, has announced that it’s building the next generation of elevators that ...

SAN FRANCISCO– Elevators are in a rut. They go up and they go down. They take people from one floor of a building to the exact same spot on another floor. A new technology has the potential to break ...

The Connecting Terminal Elevator may or may not have a starring role in a new bridge connecting downtown to the outer harbor. The Erie Canal Harbor Development Corporation is undertaking a structural ...

If the notion that humans will one day ascend into orbit on a rope of ultra strong carbon nanofibers sounds a bit out of this world, then you’re going to love the latest dazzling twist: our future ...

After a demonstration of his new safety elevator at the New York World’s Fair in 1854, Elisha Otis, the inventor of the Otis elevator began a business that would end up making Otis elevators the world ...

Willy Wonka’s elevator is finally being brought to life. If you want to go to the top of a tall building, chances are you’ll need to make some stops. Most elevators run on a rope and pulley-type ...

In the “Harry Potter” movies, “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and others, we see cableless boxes that can travel not just vertically but horizontally and even diagonally. Today, that future might ...

The next step in the redevelopment of the Rochester Elevator site is a public hearing at the Sept. 11 city council meeting. Most of the Rochester Elevator lot, at 303 W. University Drive in Rochester, ...

In this Feb. 2012 photo provided by Otis Elevator Company, company president Pedro Baranda poses at the entrance to an elevator. Baranda told The Associated Press Tuesday, April 17, 2012, that he ...