May 5, 2006—Otis Elevator Company, a unit of United Technologies Corp. was selected to design and install one-of-a-kind glass elevators for Washington D.C.’s Newseum, the world’s first interactive museum of news. As part of the 21-unit contract, Otis will also provide six flat-belt machine-roomless Gen2 elevators.
Installed side by side along the east wall of its 90-foot atrium, Newseum’s three floor-to-ceiling glass-walled hydraulic elevators will create a bay window effect and offer visitors panoramic views of sights along Washington D.C.’s Pennsylvania Avenue. Each will travel 100 feet, nearly double the rise of conventional hydraulic elevators, and be capable of carrying 100 passengers. With cars 8 feet wide by 17 feet deep, the 18,000-pound elevators will be among the largest of their kind in the world.
Otis Elevator Company is the world’s largest manufacturer and maintainer of people-moving products including elevators, escalators and moving walkways. For more information, visit the Web site.
