paternoster

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Such so-called paternoster elevators still survive in some German public buildings.

From Seattle Times • May 25, 2023

I’m too impatient to wait for a conventional lift and the best thing about a paternoster is that you can hop on and off it as you please.

From The Guardian • Aug. 14, 2015

In 1876 the General Post Office in London got one, which is often referred to as the first in the world, although Ellis had installed a paternoster in Oriel Chambers, Liverpool, eight years before.

From The Guardian • Aug. 14, 2015

The loop: from the top The paternoster has been dubbed the ‘socialist among elevators’.

From The Guardian • Aug. 14, 2015

It is composed of three anthems taken from the book of Job, a paternoster, and a collect, and ends with the formula, Requiem eternam dona eis, Domine. 

From Roman Catholicism in Spain by Anonymous