A Japanese team is testing a small prototype space elevator, according to news reports. It’s certainly not the fantastical, many-kilometer-long cable of science fiction, but it demonstrates that at ...

KONE, one of the global leaders in the elevator and escalator industry, has unveiled its renewed high-rise elevator testing facility in Tytyri, Finland, after extensive renovations. Unique in the ...

ATLANTA (AP) — One of the world’s largest elevator towers will soon be opened to test elevators of the future as well as current ones high above the Atlanta suburbs. TK Elevator's 420-foot (128 meters ...

Huntington Ingalls Industries-Newport News Shipbuilding Division contractors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) conduct phase 2 testing on a lower stage weapons elevator on Feb.

Aprivate group has taken one small step toward the prospect of building afuturistic space elevator. LiftPort Group Inc., of Bremerton, Washington, hassuccessfully tested a robot climber - a novel ...

At the eastern edge of Germany’s Black Forest, just outside the medieval town of Rottweil, a peculiar structure — a skyscraper where nobody lives — dominates the land. It’s called TK Elevator Testturm ...

Jeddah’s Kingdom Tower will be taller than any other structure ever built. At more than one kilometer high, this supertall will require feats of engineering that, until now, have been the stuff of ...

Kevin Lavallee, CEO of TK Elevators' North American operations, stands at the top of the company's new elevator testing facility, Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2021, that towers over the Atlanta Braves stadium ...