Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For more than 160 years, elevators have gone up and down. But German company ThyssenKrupp AG, the country's largest steel producer ...

Elevators and escalators get little fanfare in the commercial development space, but some new technology may make you sit up and pay attention. From cableless elevators that go every which way, to ...

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Up and down, up and down—riding in an elevator is so boring. The next generation of elevators will be able to travel sideways. German engineering company ThyssenKrupp has created the world's first ...

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 ...

Later this year, the new 459-ft-tall East Side Tower in Berlin, Germany, will be the first building in the world to install an elevator system that travels both vertically and horizontally. OVG Real ...

In the future, after your 40 minute journey between Washington DC and New York, you might be able to hop on an elevator that not only goes up and down, but also sideways, and between buildings. German ...

The elevator is going omnidirectional. German company thyssenKrupp, has developed a ropeless elevator system called MULTI. Each cabin can move horizontally as well as vertically. The technology used ...

The elevator was invented over 160 years ago, and engineering firm ThyssenKrupp evidently thinks it’s time to shake things up a bit. They’ve designed the MULTI: a rope-less horizontal-vertical system ...

Half the world’s population already lives in cities, and that number is expected to jump to 70 percent by the end of the century. To accommodate the new urban dwellers, cities will have to build ...

If you’re faint of heart, beware. At a testing site in southwestern Germany, one of the world’s largest elevator companies is stepping up trials of the first system to operate without cables.