Once confined to the realm of science fiction, space elevators are now being seriously considered by engineers. This video ...

Elevator engineers grapple with all these questions, and none of them are as simple as they seem. Clearly, an elevator should try to reduce travel time. But how should it prioritize your time?

In 2017, German engineering company Thyssenkrupp unveiled a new elevator design called Multi that uses magnets instead of ropes. It can also move multiple cars in the same shaft, even horizontally ...

We might not currently have any technology that would make a space elevator viable on Earth. But that doesn't mean they ...

Me: Famed author and engineer Arthur C. Clarke, whose novel The Fountains of Paradise chronicles the building of the first space elevator, was asked this question in the early 1990s.

The glass elevator under construction will reach a height of 207 meters, going straight to the top of the main tower. [Photo ...

In the lobby of Otis Worldwide’s elevator test tower in Bristol sits a vintage machine, in front of a huge aerial photo of the Empire State Building. This hulking green piece of metal is the ...

TK Elevator’s new, 216,292-sq-ft home for research, testing and training changed the skyline in Cobb County as its tallest building and the tallest test tower in the United States at more than ...

The elevator-powered Manhattan skyline became the command center for the global ... America has grown extraordinarily rich from white-collar industries like software engineering and finance.