Elevators
Ture or False? Each steel cable on a modern elevator must be able to hold the entire weight of a fully loaded elevator car.
True
Early name for the escalator.
Revolving Stairs
The only US paternoster exists in this northern city.
Chicago
This ancient meeting place used a system of cages and winches that could move all the cages into the arena in seconds.
The Roman Coliseum
In 2018, a Boston elevator fell from the 95th floor, dropping this many levels before stopping.
84
The year a strike by 15,000 operators in New York halted business and, after accidents with replacement workers, helped push adoption of automatic elevators.
1945
The name of the strong metal frame that houses most of an escalator's internal parts.
Truss
The first elevators that could be described as paternoster lifts were installed in this English city in 1868.
Liverpool
This person invented the safety brake that elevators safe for people to ride
Elisha Otis
This Italian city where an escalator sped up causing significant damages and multiple injuries.
Rome
The safety elevator made its debut at this event.
1853 New York World's Fair
The name given to a horizontal escalator.
Moving walkway or sidewalk.
The name paternoster come from "Our Father", the first two words of the Lord's Prayer in this language.
Latin
This inventor first demonstrated a conveyor-belt style moving walkway at Coney Island in 1896.
Jesse Reno
Tampering with a safety chain caused the elevator failure in this Boston building.
John Hancock Center
This powered many mining and industrial elevators by the 1830's.
Steam engines
Handrails are calibrated to move this much faster than the steps.
2%
This British architect obtained a patent in July 1866 for "an improved lift, hoist, or mechanical elevator" with two shafts.
Peter Ellis
This ancient inventor is credited with creating an early elevator using pulleys and weights around 236 BC.
Archimedes
Fans of this sport were injured in an escalator accident which occurred after the brakes were disabled by plastic cable ties and the escalator was unable to slow down or stop.
Soccer
An ancient example of early lifting devices was used to move stones up shafts at this pyramid.
Khufu
The incline angle that is near the limit of ankle flex that makes standing or walking difficult.
25 degrees
Paternosters have an accident rate that is this many times the rate of elevator accidents
30
This former king of France installed a "flying chair" to move discreetly between floors.
Louis XV
The year a major escalator accident was caused by turned off error codes and falsified maintenance records.
2018