View ROALD DAHL Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, original artwork mock-up design for the covers, c.1972-73 together with an original illustration of the Oompa Loompas, pen and ink with white, ...

An illustration of a space elevator. NASA/MSFC By some estimates, a well-designed elevator would cut the cost of cargo transportation to as low as $100 per kilogram.

A space elevator untethered to Earth, with both of its ends hanging in space, might cut the costs of space travel to high orbit by 40 percent, researchers report in a new Acta Astronautica study.

In a study published Aug. 25 on the online research archive arXiv, the students contend that it’s technologically and financially feasible to build such a "lunar space elevator," which was first ...

Elevator shafts were now at the core of architectural design. Exterior of the Home Insurance Building, Chicago. The building was demolished in 1931. Chicago History Museum / Contributor.

Tony Sciallia is one of New York’s last manual elevator operators, and the human heartbeat of 863 Park Ave., a historic prewar co-op on the Upper East Side.