A fast move to the sky
Among millions of elevators active worldwide, the one installed in Landmark Tower Yokohama was the fastest with a speed of 750 meters per minute (45 km/h).
To give you a sense of how fast this elevator is, I can just tell you that the normal elevators in buildings move with a speed of about 60 meters per minute !
The elevator, produced by Mitsubishi Electric in 1993, had the record of the speed for several years, acting in the tallest building of Japan with 70 floors. However, the elevators established for the new Taipei 101 building, made by Toshiba Elevator, can carry the passengers from ground floor to 89th floor in just about 39seconds (or 60 km/h).
Well, it may seem real scary getting in these elevators but the designers do their best to provide passengers a safe move. You know, an elevator needs to move in a very straight line (compared to cars which run horizontally). So Mitsubishi Electric says that if you balance a coin on its edge in the 2nd floor, it would still be standing in 69th floor. Smooth movement, noise reduction, air-pressure control, braking systems (with trustable back-ups) are the other concerns.
This post was adopted from an article in The Japan Journal, Vol. 1, No. 3 by Tony McNicol.
To give you a sense of how fast this elevator is, I can just tell you that the normal elevators in buildings move with a speed of about 60 meters per minute !
The elevator, produced by Mitsubishi Electric in 1993, had the record of the speed for several years, acting in the tallest building of Japan with 70 floors. However, the elevators established for the new Taipei 101 building, made by Toshiba Elevator, can carry the passengers from ground floor to 89th floor in just about 39seconds (or 60 km/h).
Well, it may seem real scary getting in these elevators but the designers do their best to provide passengers a safe move. You know, an elevator needs to move in a very straight line (compared to cars which run horizontally). So Mitsubishi Electric says that if you balance a coin on its edge in the 2nd floor, it would still be standing in 69th floor. Smooth movement, noise reduction, air-pressure control, braking systems (with trustable back-ups) are the other concerns.
This post was adopted from an article in The Japan Journal, Vol. 1, No. 3 by Tony McNicol.
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