17-03-2017, 12:52 PM
The builders are putting the finishing touches to the main body of a tower that has been built to test the elevators of the future. The 761-foot-high concrete tube (232 meters) has been built in Rottweil, Germany, by ThyssenKrupp to put its 'maglev' lifting technology through its steps. The elevator will use magnetic levitation (maglev) to pull the elevator cabs horizontally, as well as vertically, quickly and smoothly, a bit like the elevator in Charlie and the chocolate factory. Elevators travel up and down. That's what they do. They do this because they move to be lifted and lowered in cables from the top of any building they inhabit. It is not particularly efficient as it put a lot of energy in lifting the cables that the elevator is connected to, and is not particularly versatile because the cable restricts its possible directions of movement.
