A Japanese team is testing a small prototype space elevator, according to news reports. It’s certainly not the fantastical, many-kilometer-long cable of science fiction, but it demonstrates that at ...

Moline City Council approved a 10-year lease with Hyprlift, an electric elevator startup out of Silicon Valley.

ATLANTA (AP) — One of the world’s largest elevator towers will soon be opened to test elevators of the future as well as current ones high above the Atlanta suburbs. TK Elevator’s 420-foot (128 meters ...

For many years there have been discussions surrounding the potential for the development of ‘space elevator’ technology. This would essentially put an orbiting ‘station’ in the air and from it, a ...

An old tower used to test elevators will see new life under a new business in Moline. City council approved leasing the ...