elevator or lift is a machine that vertically transports people or freight between levels

floor wall furniture flooring property door design ceiling bathroom tile white shelf lighting apartment elevator lift machine vertically transports people freight levels powered electric motors drive cables counterweight systems hoist pump hydraulic fluid raise cylindrical piston jack agriculture manufacturing conveyor device used materials stream bucket grain auger screw principle archimedes' paddles forks elevators languages english japanese wheelchair access laws legal requirement multistory buildings ramps high-speed faster regular skyscrapers towers travel horizontally addition vertical motion