Escalator

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Escalator
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An escalator is a moving staircase – a conveyor transport device for carrying people between floors of a building. The device consists of a motor-driven chain of individual, linked steps that move up or down on tracks, allowing the step treads to remain horizontal.

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Escalators in a Copenhagen Metro station, Denmark, 2007.
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