#HTE

Working Prototype for an Up-Down-Sideways Elevator System

Three years ago we covered ThyssenKrupp’s development of an elevator that could go up, down and sideways. Elevator lines in the future, we wrote, would look less like a series of shafts and more like Pac-Man.

Tom Scott was lucky enough to gain admittance to ThyssenKrupp’s towering elevator testing facility, and here he shows you how their Multi elevator prototype actually works:

http://www.core77.com/posts/67210/Working-Prototype-for-an-Up-Down-Sideways-Elevator-System