If you are designing a building and need to move many people up or down, you probably will at least consider an escalator. In fact, if you visit most large airports these days, they even use a similar ...

Standing a mere six feet high and made of cast steel, Jesse Reno's "inclined elevator" must have looked plenty odd to people visiting Coney Island in the fall of 1896. Essentially a slow-moving single ...

China ordered a nationwide halt to usage of a model of escalator produced by United Technologies Co.’s Otis unit after a deadly accident on one of the machines in Beijing this week. Otis had ...