elevator
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While much of today’s advances are less showy, focused on things like energy efficiency and reducing elevator wait-times, some of what the industry is working on may yet produce a few gasps.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026
Today, innovation in the elevator industry continues, quietly powering a global business that generates more than $80 billion a year and moves hundreds of millions of passengers through buildings every day.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026
Introduced widely in the 1900s, counterweights reduced the energy needed to move an elevator—a principle that remains at the heart of most elevator systems.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026
Today, elevator engineers are working to overcome numerous other obstacles as cities of the future take shape.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026
By the time he reached the elevator, he found himself escorting two pregnant women.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
