An elevator that actually goes sideways

Tom Scott · 4.3M views · 2017-06-26 · 4:21

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Tom Scott visits ThyssenKrupp's test tower in Rottweil to see the Multi, a rope-free elevator that uses linear motors to move cabins sideways as well as vertically.

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HN links it whenever ThyssenKrupp's Multi or paternoster lifts come up, as the clearest look at the working test tower.

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Mechanical & precision engineering Civil engineering & construction

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wongarsu · 2021-04 · Reference
There is also a Tom Scott video about the test tower for the Thyssen Multi, with some more details [VIDEO] It will be interesting to see how it will be used. You really need someone bold enough to design a building around high capacity, 2d elevators. And if the elevators don't work out you have severe problems using the building ... Selling this has to be an uphill battle until it's proven in a few locations.
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eliaspro · 2018-11 · Reference
The "new paternoster" is quite a different beast. Tom Scott did a video on it: [VIDEO] I live close to the tower and was really positively surprised how it turned out. Often, an architect's "vision" is far from what it ends up looking, but since this tower got its cladding, it looks spectacular - especially when the sun is low in the early morning or evening hours.
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apocalyptic0n3 · 2018-02 · Reference
Tom Scott did a video[1] on it last summer. They have a working version in a test tower in Germany, but have not installed it in an actual for-public-use building yet and I'm unsure if testing phases have been completed [1]: [VIDEO]
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