Largest paternoster elevator

The world's largest paternoster elevator – a chain of open-sided compartments slowly moving in a continuous loop – is the 38-cabin installation in the 78-m-tall Arts Tower at the University of Sheffield, UK. It opened in 1966 and, unlike many paternoster elevators that have been closed for safety reasons, continues to operate today. First developed in the 1880s by British engineers J.&E. Halls and Fred Hart as a "cyclic elevator", the common name of paternoster ("Our Father", the first two Latin words of the Lord's Prayer) arose because the loop arrangement recalls the rosary beads used to help recite prayers.