Engineering firm ThyssenKrup has created a Maglev elevator that operates horizontally as well as vertically, and without cables. The firm has completed the first public tests of the technology in a ...

A ride down from the top of Chicago's fourth-tallest building turned into a terrifying drop early Friday for a group of people, including a pregnant woman, who plunged 84 floors when a cable broke.

Thyssenkrupp has built the first rope (cable) free elevator. This will enable system like the Star Trek Turbolift which can move up down and side to side. This is elevator industry’s holy grail. It ...

CHICAGO — Three hours after plunging 84 floors, six people were freed from a broken elevator in the former John Hancock Center, WBBM reported. A hoist rope broke just after midnight Friday morning, ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A man was rescued from an elevator inside the Rhodes State Office Tower after it dropped an undetermined distance when a cable snapped Tuesday. The Rhodes state office tower is 41 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The James A. Rhodes State Office Tower is a 41-story, 629-foot skyscraper, at 30 E. Broad St., in downtown Columbus. Opened in ...

Willy Wonka’s preferred mode of transport just became a reality. A new kind of elevator uses linear motors, similar to those in maglev trains and HyperLoop, to whiz its cabins through shafts, and will ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- A man has been injured after falling 10 floors inside an elevator, according to Philadelphia police. The incident happened around 12:50 p.m. Thursday at a worksite on the 2000 ...