Footage from a security camera showed the tense moment when a woman was left hanging by a rope inside an elevator in Brazil.

Rope-free and horizontal elevators are now a reality. German company thyssenkrupp trialled the new system named "MULTI" in a 246-metre high tower in Rottweil. They developed a system using linear ...

An curved arrow pointing right. MULTI is a rope-free elevator, built by German industrial company thyssenkrupp. It uses motors instead of ropes, which allows the cars to travel not only up and ...

Early elevators were all controlled by a device called a shipper rope. Operators had to stop pulling at the rope before the elevator came to the desired floor because even when they stopped ...

Eleven people were rescued on Friday after getting stuck in an elevator in a Cambridge hi-rise. At about 6 p.m. on Friday, the Cambridge Fire Department responded to the elevator rescue in a hi-rise ...

This is the moment a group of friends took an elevator with their carts in Curitiba, Brazil, on February 7. The rope of one of the carts was caught in the door as the elevator closed, lifting one of ...