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		35bge57dtjku on Aug 6, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ThyssenKrupp Multi – world’s first rope-free eleva... Why not invent and install spiral escalators? That would give you the high throughput of the paternoster more safely. You could still have a few elevators for travel between the higher up 'elevator lobbies' people mentioned.

kurthr on Aug 6, 2017 [–]

Wow, cool... they have! http://gizmodo.com/feast-your-eyes-on-the-worlds-largest-spi...

There must be more spiral escalators now. I know there's one in Nordstrom's too.

35bge57dtjku on Aug 6, 2017 | [–]

Nice. I was picturing one more like a spiral staircase though, where the inner edge of each step touches an inner pole.

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