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At what point does a funicular become an elevator?
by bmc7505 9y ago
At what point does a funicular become an elevator?
- discohead 9y agoAt precisely 90 degrees.
- mikeash 9y agoApparently not! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incline_elevator https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incline_elevator It seems the distinction is that funiculars operate in balanced pairs, while elevators are independent units.
- mason55 9y agoFunnily enough that page has a funicular listed under the incline elevator examples
- mordechai9000 9y agoI went to Germany this year and I made a point of planning a visit to a funicular. To my great disappointment, the funicular we found in Freiburg am Breisgau used a counterweight instead of another car. Now I wonder if it was really a funicular at all.
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- looiid 9y agoDefine precise.
- blattimwind 9y agoNope https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Town_Hall_(Hanover)#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Town_Hall_(Hanover)#Histor...
- mabbo 9y agoWorth pointing out that by 110% they mean the rise/run fraction. 110% is around 50 degree incline.
- 1wd 9y agoThere's one EU directive [1] that concerns "funicular railways and other installations with vehicles mounted on wheels or on other suspension devices where traction is provided by one or more cables", which "shall not apply to [...] lifts". Those are addressed in [2] which "shall apply to lifts permanently serving buildings and constructions and intended for the transport of [persons and goods] [...] serving specific levels, having a carrier moving along guides which are rigid and inclined at an angle of more than 15 degrees to the horizontal", but "shall not apply to [...] funicular railways". [1] http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32014L0033 http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELE... [2] http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2000:106:0021:0048:en:PDF http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2...