31K views · 754 reactions | Not your everyday ride! Join us on an unusual journey through an elevator shaft and enjoy the scenery from an elevator's point of view. Bonus points if you tell us where that is  | Schindler | Facebook

Meet the world’s first electric elevator! For the first time ever several people could be transported vertically by an electric elevator – at 1.8 kilometers per hour up to a height of 40 meters. This invention by Werner von Siemens was in fact a vertically moving locomotive. 🚂 It was presented by Siemens in Mannheim, Germany, in 1880. Throughout time #elevators have opened the opportunity to travel independently and safely between building floors in all sorts of buildings. 🏢 Today, #IoT and di