CHICAGO (WLS) -- You may have been on one of those speedy elevators in the building formerly known as the John Hancock Center. The I-Team learned what inspectors said really happened the night an ...

CHICAGO, IL--(Marketwired - December 01, 2014) - ThyssenKrupp, a global technologies and materials group, unveiled its new MULTI elevator technology, enabling the vertical and horizontal operation of ...

Elevators are absolutely vital in tall buildings, but they have their limits -- they can only move so quickly, and they can't usually move sideways to fetch you from the far side of a building. Both ...

CHICAGO, Illinois -- Six people who were rescued from an elevator in the former John Hancock Center, one of Chicago's tallest skyscrapers, later learned they had dropped 84 floors after two elevator ...

Elevators, not the safest place these days? Between flame attacks, horrible accidents, electrocutions and now snapped cables—suddenly the stairs never looked better. Last night a 17-year-old boy in ...

German engineers have invented a cable-less elevator that can move horizontally as well as vertically by using magnetic levitation, or maglev, technology - meaning the elevator carriage will float in ...

CHICAGO -- Six people who were rescued from an elevator in the former John Hancock building, one of Chicago's tallest skyscrapers, later learned the fall lasted 84 floors after two elevator cables ...

SAVANNAH - A dangling length of elevator cable striking a shut-off switch likely caused a Georgia couple's home elevator to stop between floors, trapping them inside until they died from heat ...

French investigators are recommending inspection of elevator cables on de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otters after discovering severe fraying on the Air Moorea aircraft that crashed in French ...