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Became the tallest elevator test tower when completed in January 2020 2 Jauhar Test Tower [3] Otis: Shanghai, China: 886 ft (270 m) 2018 In Shanghai, the world’s oldest elevator manufacturer is set to make the biggest research and development center for really tall elevators — a really tall test tower. 3 Canny Test Tower [4] Canny Elevator
Feb. 10—CUMBERLAND — Cobb County's tallest building had its coming out party Wednesday as TK Elevator unveiled its new, 420-foot test tower. While TK Elevator's North American headquarters is ...
It stands 246 m (807 ft) tall and was built to test the company's MULTI elevator system. At 232 m (761 ft), the tower contains Germany's tallest observation deck. [1] It was completed in 2017 and was the tallest elevator test tower in the world then, [2] [3] as well as the second-largest elevator test chamber after a former mine shaft used by Kone.
The TK Elevator Test Tower, an elevator test tower in Rottweil, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. An elevator test tower is a structure usually 100 to over 200 metres (300 feet to over 600 feet) tall that is designed to evaluate the stress and fatigue limits of specific elevator cars in a controlled environment.
The elevator test tower, which has finished pouring concrete and topped out, is the centerpiece for TK Elevator's new North America headquarters at The Battery Atlanta. TK Elevator is the new name ...
The tower is 173 metres (568 ft). [1] When completed in 2007, it was the world's tallest elevator test tower. Since that time, the record has been broken by the Hyundai Eizan Tower (205 meters) in 2009, the Hitachi G1 Tower (213 meters) in 2010 and the Kunshan Test Tower in China (235 meters). [2]
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The tower featured prominently in a 1993 episode of the Channel 4 educational programme The Secret Life of Machines (Series 3, Episode 1), in which Tim Hunkin demonstrates the operation of the high-speed lift in the tower. [citation needed] The tower was lampooned by broadcaster Terry Wogan as the "Northampton lighthouse".