A university's Paternoster lift has become a surprise hit online. The lift, which is made up of 14 individual compartments and runs on a continuous loop, was installed at the University of Essex in ...

The elevator is what made high rise buildings happen. But they are also a real problem in the post-coronavirus world, where one is stuck in a tiny box with other people you don't know. Ben Guardino ...

The paternoster is a doorless, conveyor-belt-style elevator that is largely extinct, except in Germany, where enthusiasts have kept the lifts running. Photo: Ellen Jervell/The Wall Street Journal ...

I religiously maintain a list of ‘dangerous machinery that wants to eat my limbs’, and having watched this video, Paternoster lifts — that is, lifts with continuously moving carriages that you jump in ...