The 71 elevators and 12 escalators at the 104-floor, 1,776-foot tall One World Trade Center in New York City, were constructed by ThyssenKrupp Elevator Americas – in Middleton.
One World Trade Center opened in October 2014, 13 years and one month following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
The elevators utilize more than 198 miles of steel cable — about the distance from Jackson to Cookeville — and the largest motors weigh 50,000 pounds.
The counterweights for each of the elevators combined weigh more than one million pounds, about the size of 250 mid-sized automobiles.
With an approximate total weight of four million pounds of elevator guide rails, measuring nearly 35 miles, shipping called for 100 trips on tractor-trailers 53-feet long.
Traveling at a speed of 2,000 feet per minute (about 23 miles per hour), five elevators serve the observation deck.
(PHOTO:Â One World Trade Center, New York)
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