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Monthly Archives: November 2010
Short overview on Acclerating Walkways
Since the early 1960’s, an awakening interest of city developers and industry parties in accelerating moving walkways, brought new solutions to be investigated and tested. Major companies have tried to produced, install and regulate these machines. Believing a successful machine … Continue reading
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Helixator and Contemporary architecture
Computer technologies and new development of tools by the building industry have radically transformed the way buildings are planned and built. Contemporary architecture is constantly pushing the boundaries of material, structure and function reinventing our buildings and cities. The combination … Continue reading
High Speed Helixators
The high-speed Helixator is a combination of emerging technologies and existing inventions into a machine for continuous vertical transport. The Helixator technology is flexible to the point it can be developed with any of the several existing acceleration methods, the figures presented in … Continue reading
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Futuristic cities – Paris ,1900
Many misconceptions exist regarding the Paris moving walkway of 1900, known at the time as “Platforme mobile electrique”. It was invented and built by American civil engineer Max Schmidt and was a magnificent futuristic machine way ahead of its time. … Continue reading
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Helixator technology
Helixators core technology uses a single structure modular track system embodied in the form of a monorail, a method that presents many mechanical and structural advantages. It directly eliminates the necessity for compensating the outer and inner step chains different … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Elevators, future, Helical escalators, Helixator, Moving walkways, Technology
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Hitachi’s Circulating Multi-car Elevator
Japanese heavy-engineering firm Hitachi is already talking up a Paternoster revival with its Circulating Multi-car Elevator System. Hitachi’s system improves safety with an scheme for stopping individual cars while passengers hop on and off. The firm claims that it could … Continue reading
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Berlin’s “Paternosters”
The 19th century continuous elevator, known as “Paternoster” is a peculiar invention that still seems to have a lot of charm and potential. Thanks to the German engineering in GDR times, Berlin was blessed with relatively many of these devices. … Continue reading
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More about the Holloway road machine
Many questions raised with the rediscovery of the Holloway machine and its great engineering effort. The assumption and reasons the machine never worked have occupied the mind of many researchers and have been disputed greatly. Based on the original patent … Continue reading
Future 3D elevators?
The L-TEC Outdoorlift is a self-propelled cabin lift featuring an innovative drive system with all-terrain capabilities. It negotiates changes in direction and inclines smoothly and has excellent potential geometrical layouts. The only question left is the maximum speed limit for … Continue reading
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