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Mondo Elevator.

A Short Thread About the Weird World of Vertical Transport. 🛗🧵

1. Paternoster Lift.

An open-doored elevator that’s on a loop, moving slowly and continually. Name inspired by a loop of rosary beads. This one is at City Hall...

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2. World's largest passenger elevator.

At the Jio World Centre, in , . It can carry over 200 people. Really, more like a metro car than an elevator...

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3. The Ascensore Castello d'Albertis.

, . Starts as a funicular, running slantwise, than goes up like an elevator. Molto Willy Wonka!

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4. Elevador de Santa Justa.

Part of 's public transit system. Connects the lower city of with the hillside district of Largo do Carmo. Built in 1902, by a student of Eiffel, rises 150 feet.

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5. Elevador Lacerdo

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240 feet (73m) high, the shaft contains four cabins which go up and down in under 30 seconds. An Art Deco delight, built in 1930s.

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What got me thinking about this was being in Manhattan last week. Riding the subway (horizontal transport), then taking the elevators (vertical transit) with my kids up the Empire State Building.

Turns out my aunt was an "Elevator Girl," once upon a time in . (She remembers it as being a good job, except for the pinching.)

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