escalator

     

An escalator is a conveyor transport evice for transporting people, consisting of individual, linked steps that move up or down on tracks, which keep the treads horizontal.

Trivia about escalator

  • Introduced at the 1900 World's Fair in Paris, its name comes from Latin for "one that takes you up the ladder"
  • Term for a moving stairway, it was originally a trademark of the Otis Elevator Co.
  • Almost 40 years after Otis invented the safety elevator, Jesse Reno developed this people mover
  • This clause in a union contract says that wages will rise or fall depending on a standard such as cost of living

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