Tony,
If the wife ever remembers to forward the link to me, she has a video of an old elevator in some old hotel in Germany that is a tourist attraction. It's unusual in that it never stops and keeps going up and down. You get on when the elevator lines up with your floor! Sounds dangerous!
Have you heard of it?
Cecil,
Do you mean like this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ro3Fc_yG3p0 Five people have died since 1970. If only we could say the same about auotmobiles.
Something working in a similar manner but in much faster, smaller, more dangerous form were the man lifts used in grain elevators in the early 20th century. They consisted of a belt running around large pulleys much like what were used for bucket elevators to move the grain. But instead of buckets for handling grain there were a double sided step. One side of the belt was going up and the other down and at a speed considerably faster than is on the u-tube video. There was a hole in the floors big enough for a mans shoulders. Step on the up going side to go up a floor or three or four, Step on the down side to go down. Just the step and a hand hold.
Very much on the same principal as the paternoster in the video. Watched elevator operators step on and off that belt many times. Back when the Darwinian theory of evolution was still in practice for humans.
