An elevator (or lift) is a vertical transport Transport or transportation is the movement of people and goods from one location to another. Transport is performed by modes, such as air, rail, road, water, cable, pipeline and space. The field can be divided into infrastructure, vehicles, and operations vehicle that efficiently moves people or goods between floors of a building. They are generally powered by electric motors that either drive traction cables and counterweight systems, or pump hydraulic fluid to raise a cylindrical piston.
Languages other than English may have loanwords By contrast, a calque or loan translation is a related concept, whereby it is the meaning or idiom that is borrowed rather than the lexical item itself based on either elevator (e.g., Japanese Japanese (日本語?, [nihonɡo] ) is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic (or Japanese-Ryukyuan) language family. There are a number of proposed relationships with other languages, but none of them has gained unanimous acceptance. Japanese is an agglutinative) or lift (e.g., Cantonese Cantonese is a variety of the Chinese language spoken in and around the city of Guangzhou in Southern China, by the majority population of Hong Kong and Macau, and as a lingua franca of Guangdong province, eastern Guangxi province, and some neighbouring areas. It is used in Hong Kong and Macau as the de facto official spoken language of government).
Because of wheelchair access laws, elevators are often a legal requirement in new multi-story buildings, especially where wheelchair ramps would be impractical.
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Finnish elevator and escalator maker Kone Oyj (KNEBV.HE) Tuesday posted a better-than-expected 13% rise in ...
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Hal Newman
Fri, 12 Feb 2010 01:48:00 GM
Indianapolis IN--In the first large-scale epidemiological study of . elevator. -related injuries in older adults in the United States, researchers from the Indiana University School of Medicine and an Ohio State University colleague report ...
