History
A Brief History of Elevator Wire Ropes, Part Three
Rope technology from WWII to the present is covered in this series-concluding article. The period following World War II (WWII) witnessed the development of modern glass-and-steel skyscrapers and improved traction...
A Brief History of Elevator Wire Ropes, Part Two
New developments and the focus on safety in the early 20th century brought lasting change to hoisting means. The history of wire ropes in the 1920s and 1930s encompassed the...
A Brief History of Elevator Wire Ropes, Part One
Wire elevator ropes in the 19th century and their maturation in the early 20th century are examined. The humble hoisting rope occupies a unique place in the history of vertical...
ELEVATOR WORLD, 1966
A commitment to innovation has a parallel after 50 years. The history of the vertical-transportation industry is, in many ways, the story of repeated attempts to solve a basic set...
“Elevator Action”
This 1983 Golden Age console marked the intersection of the worlds of vertical transportation and video games. The phrase “Golden Age” evokes a variety of images, such as the Golden...
Paul Schuyler Van Bloem
Research of eclectic inventor reveals advances in the early elevator indicator. ELEVATOR WORLD receives numerous requests for information throughout the year from people outside of the industry seeking information about...
Alexander Miles
While this 19th-century inventor had a unique contribution to elevator history, the story has been corrupted over the decades. In October 2015, ELEVATOR WORLD received an email suggesting that the...
Early Elevator Guide Lubricators
A look back to the turn of the 20th century reveals the rocky start of these important devices. One of the first American elevator books was H. Robert Cullmer’s Elevator...
Remembering Soimet
A business marked by mutual trust and friendship By Elizabeth Vrdoljakedited and translated by Carmen Maldacena, EW Correspondent For many years, SOIMET – Sociedad Industrial Metalúrgica (Metallurgical Industrial Society) –...
The Early History of Cable-less Elevator Systems
Early designs for cable-less, self-propelled, multicar elevator systems that inspired such designs as the MULTI Not long after the official announcement of ThyssenKrupp’s MULTI system (“A Paternoster for the Future,”...
