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10-28-2012, 09:32 PM
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Re: Continuous Elevators In Germany
Amputation, Mutilation and/or Fatality waiting to happen. They should just stick to stairs without railings. All the lack of safety and much cheaper. |
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10-29-2012, 12:46 AM
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Re: Continuous Elevators In Germany
last time i was in sheffield arts tower they have the same thing, it's called a paternoster. scary shit, you can go right round over the top on the sheffield one.  maybe they stopped that, it's been a while.
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10-29-2012, 10:40 AM
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Re: Continuous Elevators In Germany
This may be a stupid question but I can't help but think..what happens when it like.. gets to the bottom/top of the building and it can't go no further  if that even made any sense.
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11-05-2012, 11:56 AM
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Re: Continuous Elevators In Germany
A paternoster (name derived from the "our father" prayer and continuous chain of rosary beads) is a primitive form of elevator - I don't think new ones are allowed. It eliminates the need for a start/stop system, and either an operator or an automated "floor selector/stop at the right point" mechanism - in the late 19th/early 20th century, that would be either an ongoing expense, or an incredibly complex system. Also, given the technology of the time, they were the only way (short of a goyem operator) to build an elevator suitable for Orthodox Jews (not allowed to do work on the Sabbath - most extreme interpretation didn't even allow pushing an elevator button/turning on a light switch). Modern elevators have a "sabbath mode" that can be enabled - stops at every floor on the way up, then at every floor on the way down, repeat cycle until switched to a different mode.
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