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2. Schindler Group - Wikipedia

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   Schindler Holding Ltd. [2] is a Swiss multinational company which manufactures escalators, moving walkways, and elevators worldwide, founded in Switzerland in 1874. Schindler produces, installs, maintains and modernizes lifts and escalators in many types of buildings including residential, commercial and high-rise buildings.

3. Paternoster lift - Wikipedia

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   A paternoster in Prague Paternoster elevator in The Hague, when it was still in operation. A paternoster (/ ˌ p eɪ t ər ˈ n ɒ s t ər /, / ˌ p ɑː-/, or / ˌ p æ-/) or paternoster lift is a passenger elevator which consists of a chain of open compartments (each usually designed for two people) that move slowly in a loop up and down inside a building without stopping.

4. Schindler Elevator Corporation - Wikipedia

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   In 2005, Schindler acquired the Hontz Elevator Company [1] after a brief legal battle with the German authorities over the registration of the company name. [citation needed] The court held that the Hontz Elevator Company had been established in the 19th century by Karl Hontz (then under the title Die Hontz Aufzugfirma) according to a folder of documents that had previously surfaced in the ...

5. Escalator - Wikipedia

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   As evidenced in Seeberger's handwritten documents, the inventor consulted "a Latin lexicon" and "adopted as the root of the new word, 'Scala'; as a prefix, 'E' and as a suffix, 'Tor.'" [19] His own rough translation of the word thus created was "means of traversing from", and he intended for the word to be pronounced / ɛ s ˈ k æ l ə t ɔːr ...

6. Download, install, or uninstall AOL Desktop Gold - AOL Help

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   Learn how to download and install or uninstall the Desktop Gold software and if your computer meets the system requirements.

7. List of elevator manufacturers - Wikipedia

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   Montgomery Elevator: Acquired by Kone, Canadian division in 1985 and U.S. division in 1994. Marshall Elevator: Sold to Otis; Schweizerische Aufzügefabrik AG; Thyssen AG: Merged with Krupp and became ThyssenKrupp in 1999, with subsidiary ThyssenKrupp Elevator AG; ThyssenKrupp Elevator AG announced in 2021 a name change and rebranding to TK ...

8. Government shutdown odds are rising. Economic experts aren’t ...

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   Whether or not House Speaker Johnson and his colleagues can find a way out of this standoff, the economic costs also could already be real in the world of credit ratings.

9. Destination dispatch - Wikipedia

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   Destination dispatch is an optimization technique used for multi-elevator installations, in which groups of passengers heading to the same destinations use the same elevators, thereby reducing waiting and travel times. This contrasts with the traditional approach, in which each passenger calls for and enters the first available lift and then ...