KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. — Nearly 87 years later, one of the last manually operated elevators in the U.S. continues to run flawlessly. David Filippe, head elevator operator and assistant manager of the ...

One of Chicago's last manual elevator operators understands the novelty of his 'office' in the famous Fine Arts Building. "It has its ups and downs," Brian joked about the job. He said he wound up ...

Trekking up and down long flights of stairs could soon be a thing of the past with the invention of a manual lift. The Vertiwalk contraption is a pulley operated elevator that is powered using your ...

A team of designers from the Rombaut Frieling Lab in Eindhoven, Netherlands, have created what they believe is the perfect hybrid between stairs and elevators: an unusual contraption called the ...