An elevator (American English) or lift (Commonwealth English) is a machine that vertically transports people or freight between levels. They are typically...
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Look up elevator in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. An elevator (also called a lift) is a device for the vertical movement of goods or people, typically...
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A space elevator, also referred to as a space bridge, star ladder, and orbital lift, is a proposed type of planet-to-space transportation system, often...
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A grain elevator or grain terminal is a facility designed to stockpile or store grain. In the grain trade, the term "grain elevator" also describes a...
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Otis Worldwide (redirect from Otis Elevator)
as the Otis Elevator Company, its former legal name) styled as OTIS is an American company that develops, manufactures and markets elevators, escalators...
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An inclined elevator or inclined lift is a form of cable railway that hauls rail cars up a steep gradient. An inclined elevator consists of one or two...
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Elevator Game is a 2023 American horror film directed by Rebekah McKendry and starring Gino Anania, Megan Best, Alec Carlos, Nazariy Demkowicz, Samantha...
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An elevator pitch, elevator speech, lift speech, or elevator statement is a short description of an idea, product, or company that explains the concept...
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The Bailong Elevator (Chinese: 百龙电梯; literally Hundred Dragons Elevator) is a glass double-deck elevator built onto the side of a cliff in the Wulingyuan...
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Elevator music (also known as Muzak, piped music, or lift music) is a type of background music played in elevators, in rooms where many people come together...
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Elevators are flight control surfaces, usually at the rear of an aircraft, which control the aircraft's pitch, and therefore the angle of attack and the...
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Skyhook (structure) (redirect from Skyhook elevator)
transferred to the payload. A skyhook differs from a geostationary orbit space elevator in that a skyhook would be much shorter and would not come in contact with...
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The Fenelon Place Elevator (also known as the Fourth Street Elevator) is a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge funicular railway located in Dubuque, Iowa, United...
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elevator accidents, a 15-year-old boy was decapitated by an elevator at a furniture warehouse in Baltimore, Maryland. On 20 May 1905, three elevator accidents...
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Elevator surfing, also known as lift surfing, is the usually clandestine activity of riding on top of elevators, rather than inside them. More experienced...
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Elevator is a 2011 American mystery thriller film directed by Stig Svendsen. It follows the struggles and conflicts of nine strangers trapped in a Wall...
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A Shabbat elevator is an elevator which works in a special mode, operating automatically, to satisfy the Jewish law requiring Jews to abstain from operating...
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Elevator girl may refer to: Elevator operator "Elevator Girl", a 2019 song by Babymetal Elevator Girl, a 2010 Hallmark Channel Original Movie "Elevator...
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List of notable grain elevators: Canada Alberta Acadia Valley – Prairie Elevator Museum, former Alberta Wheat Pool converted into a tea house / museum...
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Wikiquote has quotations related to The Ersatz Elevator. Book the Sixth: The Ersatz Elevator is the sixth novel of the children's novel series A Series...
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An elevator operator (North American English), liftman (in Commonwealth English, usually lift attendant), or lift girl (in British English), is a person...
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A double-deck elevator or double-deck lift is an elevator where one cab is stacked on top of another. This allows passengers on two consecutive floors...
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The elevator algorithm, or SCAN, is a disk-scheduling algorithm to determine the motion of the disk's arm and head in servicing read and write requests...
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Elevator Action is a shooter platform video game developed and published by Taito for arcades. The player assumes the role of a secret agent infiltrating...
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Space elevator economics compares the cost of sending a payload into Earth orbit via a space elevator with the cost of doing so with alternatives, like...
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator is a children's book by British author Roald Dahl. It is the sequel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, continuing...
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ThyssenKrupp (redirect from Dover Elevator)
products range from machines and industrial services to high-speed trains, elevators, and shipbuilding. The subsidiary ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems also manufactures...
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Toshiba Hyundai Elevator Schindler Group Stannah Lifts McKinley Elevator Corporation Otis Elevator Company Dover Corporation: Elevator division acquired...
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A bucket elevator, also called a grain leg, is a mechanism for hauling flowable bulk materials (most often grain or fertilizer) vertically. It consists...
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The elevator paradox is a paradox first noted by Marvin Stern and George Gamow, physicists who had offices on different floors of a multi-story building...
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