Thyssenkrupp has built the first rope (cable) free elevator. This will enable system like the Star Trek Turbolift which can move up down and side to side. This is elevator industry’s holy grail. It ...

Forget buying a stairway to heaven. Serious people are trying to build an elevator to space. That’s not a metaphor, and yes, a space elevator sounds like plot point from an Arthur C. Clarke novel.

Maglev (magnetic levitation) technology is used in a variety of applications including Japan’s bullet train and the Hyperloop project. Now you can add maglev technology to another people mover, the ...

Space elevators are a “next generation” method of getting people (and equipment) into Earth’s orbit. As the name suggests, this structure would literally be an elevator that extends all the way to ...

HELSINKI, Finland, Nov. 29, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- KONE, a global leader in the elevator and escalator industry, today introduces the world's first digital elevator series. With built-in connectivity as ...

The transporter in this artwork is called the Clarke Clipper, after the British science-fiction author Arthur C. Clarke, who wrote about space elevators in his novel ...