Paternoster Lifts: Dangerous, Obsolete and Quite Fun (including over the top!)

Tom Scott · 3M views · 2015 · 1:55

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Explores the history, mechanics, and quirks of paternoster lifts, a nearly obsolete but fascinating type of elevator.

Linked by 6 independent sites, 2 of them widely read in the 2026-10 crawl of the open web, including wikipedia.org, laughingsquid.com, 99percentinvisible.org, mdig.com.br, clivemaxfield.com.