First moving walkway
- Who
- World's Columbian Exposition
- What
- First
- Where
- United States (World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago,)
- When
- 1893
The first moving walkway – and also the longest ever – appeared at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, USA. Separate levels allowed riders, for five cents, to either stand while moving at 2 mph or sit on benches at 4 mph. Operated by the Columbian Movable Sidewalk Company, the walkway ferried visitors arriving by steamboats, and ran over 1 kilometre along a pier and onwards to the Exposition entrance. It transported up to 31,680 people per hour, and was destroyed by fire in 1894.