Last Glance
TikTok: Reaching the Next Generation
The struggle to recruit new employees always requires new ideas, observes Rainer Grill, head of public relations at Ziehl-Abegg, the Künzelsau, Germany-based motor and fan manufacturer. That’s why, two years...
The Picture Behind the Picture
ELEVATOR WORLD is probably not alone in having the “Lunchtime Atop a Skyscraper” photograph, taken in 1932 by Charles C. Ebbets during construction of Rockefeller Center in NYC, displayed prominently...
Sparks and Achievements
TK Elevator (TKE) photographer Ron Acord has a knack for capturing moments, including this one showing a welder refining pieces of steel for elevator parts at TKE’s North America manufacturing...
LEGO: TK Elevator One-of-a-Kind Keepsake
As festivities to welcome TK Elevator’s (TKE) North American headquarters (HQ), which includes a 420-ft-tall test tower, wound down on February 9 at The Battery Atlanta, TKE team members stood...
Reexamining “Winds of Change”
Conflict in Ukraine casts domestic VT market in very different light. In early December 2021, a Russian writer submitted an article to ELEVATOR WORLD about the Ukraine vertical-transportation (VT) market...
“Jewel” of The Broad
Rick Mitchell, director of facilities at contemporary art museum The Broad in downtown Los Angeles, considers the custom Mitsubishi Electric cylindrical glass elevator “one of the many jewels of the...
Historic Otis Elevator Turns 100
Many things in the 1920s were made to last. The three-stop elevator in The Woodrow Wilson House in Washington, D.C., is testament to this, turning 100 years old in 2021....
The Ascent Has Begun
There aren’t many titles that One Vanderbilt (ELEVATOR WORLD, August 2019) doesn’t have. At a height of 1,401 ft, it is the fourth tallest tower in New York, the fifth...
A Piece of 1800s History
The lift inside the Cambrian Building in Cardiff is over 50 years old, but it continues to operate the same as it did when it was originally installed. The building...
How Many Elevator Guys Does It Take To Fix a Mini Elevator?
Historian Arnold Toynbee is quoted as saying, “The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.” With the NAEC NOLA tradeshow in New Orleans in full swing,...
