Re: Coupled Elevators?

[Hugh Haskell <hhaskell@MINDSPRING.COM>]

At 9:43 -0500 9/19/01, brian whatcott wrote:
> There is a species of elevator sometimes used in colleges for student
> transport which does not stop, and does not necessarily ascend vertically
> but may traverse, and contains a chain of walk on capsules on an endless belt
> onto which one hops.
There is another species of transportation that behaves in this
reciprocal way, found occasionally in this country but commonly in
Europe, and that is the funicular railway, where two cars share a
common track except for a short section in the center where the track
splits to allow the cars to pass, and their motion is coupled,
usually by having them connected by a cable loop which is driven from
a capstain rotated by a large elcetric motor.

And then there are ski-lifts and other aerial tramways.

Hugh
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