If you are designing a building and need to move many people up or down, you probably will at least consider an escalator. In fact, if you visit most large airports these days, they even use a similar ...

Standing a mere six feet high and made of cast steel, Jesse Reno's "inclined elevator" must have looked plenty odd to people visiting Coney Island in the fall of 1896. Essentially a slow-moving single ...

Escalators at major railway stations across Germany have been taken out of service due to technical problems, in a disruption affecting some 130 units nationwide, state-owned rail operator Deutsche ...

And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac: August 9th, 1859, 156 years ago today ... the day the patent for a prototype escalator, called "revolving stairs ...