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Stage lifts and orchestra lifts are specialized elevators, typically powered by hydraulics, that are used to raise and lower entire sections of a theater stage. For example, Radio City Music Hall has four such elevators: an orchestra lift that covers a large area of the stage, and three smaller lifts near the rear of the stage.
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The Mitsubishi Electric-owned Solae Test Tower (173 m) in Inazawa City, Japan, is the world's 4th tallest elevator testing tower after Hyundai elevator test tower at Icheon plant (205 m) South Korea, the Kone Tytyri test tower (235 m) and the Rottweil Test Tower (246 m).
A simple dumbwaiter is a movable frame in a shaft, dropped by a rope on a pulley, guided by rails; most dumbwaiters have a shaft, cart, and capacity smaller than those of passenger elevators, usually 45 to 450 kg (100 to 992 lbs.) [2] Before electric motors were added in the 1920s, dumbwaiters were controlled manually by ropes on pulleys.
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Elevator, or lift, a device used for raising and lowering people or goods Paternoster lift, a type of lift using a continuous chain of cars which do not stop; Patient lift, or Hoyer lift, mobile lift, ceiling lift, a lift to assist a caregiver for a disabled patient; Rack lift, a type of elevator; Ski lift, an aerial or surface lift for uphill ...
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