Do you imagine that the elevator without the shape that you know and I used to use it, without buttons or doors not a moment stop! Yes, this is not fantasy engineered elevator, but it is a fact.

Called "paternoster" a type of the elevators, which consists of a series of open closets that are moving up and down, continuously through the vertical body moving, rotating, similar episode. Passengers stand in the animated closets are going roundabout style, willing to go down on the floor they want.

There are no stops between floors, and the passengers to remain vigilant and cautious to go down at the required level and will continue unless the lift wheel movement and rotation. This elevator may not be appropriate for those who suffer from a phobia of elevators, a wrong step may lose their arms or even their lives.

Work mechanism

The first lift of this type have been installed in Dartford in England in 1884, which was invented by the English architect Peter Hart. The word "paternoster" came from the first two words in so-called Lord's Prayer "Pater Noster". It was inspired by the idea of the elevator of rosary beads.