People who used escalators at one of London's busiest subway stations recently faced a rather odd regulation: Everyone had to stand still.
Is the lovely Piaggio Vespa motorcycle more iconic than a floppy disk? Or does the iPod music player have more classic design meanings than an Airbus A380?
Anyone who has ever played Slinky spiral springs enjoys it when watching this toy run from the staircase down, Matthias Wandel's wooden escalator system does even more.
Elevator escalators are always one of the places that contain many bacterial pathogens by the thousands to thousands of people touching hands.