The types of elevators a community has used in its history can tell you something about its fascination with upward mobility. In the 19th century in Schuylkill County, the industrial revolution ...

Editor’s Note: Read more unknown and curious design origin stories here. The first passenger elevator got off to a slow start. Installed in 1857 at the Haughwout Department Store in New York, it was ...

You probably don't think twice when stepping into an elevator. It's just there, ready to whisk you up to your hotel room on the 30th floor of a Vegas casino or down to the underground parking garage.

Five high-speed elevators show CGI timelapse of New York over the centuries, beginning in 1500, on 47-second journey to the 1,268ft summit. There are no windows in five high-speed elevators at the new ...