As skyscrapers get taller, elevators are getting faster. The new ones travel as fast as a car on a city street at over 60 km/h. Report an error ...

A German lift manufacturer has attracted widespread attention after using the recent Louvre heist as the centrepiece of its latest marketing campaign. Bocker Maschinenwerke, based in Werne, Germany, ...

In 1857, the first commercial passenger elevator reached speeds of 40 feet a minute. More than a century and a half later, an elevator built by Hitachi is expected to reach a maximum speed of 3937 ...