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“The paternoster elevator at Prague City Hall. These door-less, continuously moving lifts are the 1860s invention of Peter Ellis, an architect from Liverpool, and were once popular all over Eastern Europe and Germany before production ended in the 1970s over safety concerns. ” Video courtesy Jada Yuan

you ever just instantly develop an irrational fear

my toddler brain immediately thought “in what brutal manner will you be crushed if you don’t get out at the last floor” but it turns out thats not one of the ways they will kill you

I’m assuming this is called a “paternoster” because you gotta pray the entire time you’re on it.

It had a way greater nickname in German: “Proletenbagger” (”pleb digger”) and, because naturally the rich needed their own, better paternosters, “Bonzenbagger” (”nob digger”). Class commentary by way of technology.

How incredibly cool is this!