1. But Reiss said the problems were caused by the swaying of the buildings in the wind and the impact of elevator cables against the beams. 2. Fellow riders must fear that the elevator cables are about to snap and send us plummeting into the Chronicle basement. 3. If buildings are built tall enough, the weight of the elevator cables may be too much for the metal from which the cables are made to support. 4. Imagine an elevator cable extended into space, suspended in orbit, constructed of braided nanotube ropes thousands of kilometers long. 5. It felt more like the gradual crumbling of a bridge than the snap of an elevator cable, but the drop was profound and unsettling. 6. One of the limits on high-rise structures is the weight of the elevator cables. 7. The locomotive and carriage tumbled down the shaft, colliding with the cage and snapping the elevator cable. 8. We were getting closer each day, following elevator cables. 9. According to the Emergency Situations Ministry, another miner was killed Wednesday in the western Lviv region following a rupture of an elevator cable. |