The world’s first horizontala and vertical elevator can literally open up new directions of travel in underground transport hubs. MULTI breaks the 160-year tradition of rope-driven elevators and has ...

German engineering conglomerate ThyssenKrupp has turned a fictional multi-directional elevator into a reality. 2027 Pro Football Hall of Fame class: Rob Gronkowski, Adrian Peterson, Ben Roethlisberger ...

Elevator design hasn't progressed very much during the past 160 years, and still comprises cabins which move vertically in a shaft supported by cables. This is inefficient and limiting, taking up a ...

Willy Wonka's great glass elevator is becoming a reality thanks to a German engineering firm that has developed the world's first cable-free lift that can travel horizontally and vertically. German ...

Elevator technology hasn’t really improved much since its first appearance over 160 years ago. Enter ThyssenKrupp’s MULTI — an advanced elevator system that’s poised to radically transform the way we ...

The days of vertical elevators may soon be behind us. A rope-free elevator system that can travel both vertically and horizontally is being tested in a 246m tower in Rottweil, Germany. As existing ...

People don’t tend to notice elevators until something goes wrong. Unless one is slow, out of service or crammed full of people, we get on and off without much thought. Elevator makers haven’t given it ...

In their latest press release, elevator manufacturer ThyssenKrupp announced new information about their cable-free system that rethinks the movement of the 1853 invention. Allowing for both horizontal ...

You don't have to travel to Willy Wonka's world of pure imagination to see a multi-directional elevator. Instead, take a trip to Genoa, Italy and visit the Ascensore Castello d’Albertis-Montegalletto.