Talk:Moving walkway
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[edit] History?
Thought the accepted "first" moving walkway was at the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition in 1893. True?BFDhD 20:46, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Date for Paris Metro High-Speed?
-There really should be a date given for the opening of the high speed walkways on the Paris Metro.
-wgw2024 Dec 4 2005
[edit] Difference?
The article doesn't make it clear that there's any difference between Inclined moving sidewalks and Travelators. Why should they be kept seperate? Is there a difference? Alvis 06:30, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
Maybe the word 'Travolator' is a trade name given to a moving walkway produced by a certain commercial ortganisation? [[Citytransport.info 14:59, 30 January 2007 (UTC)User:Citytransport.info|Citytransport.info]] 30th January 2007
The Trav-O-Lator® is a registered trademark of Otis Elevator Company (a wholly-owned subsidiary of United Technologies), and should be spelled as such when referring to the specific Otis company product. All major manufacturers (Schindler, Mitsubishi, Kone) refer to their similar product as "moving walks," and do not use the term "Trav-O-Lator®." One can see, by a cursory visit to their individual websites, that Otis is the only one who refers to their moving sidewalk product as a "Trav-O-Lator®." Obviously, this can be a bit confusing (particularly to our European contributors/readers), as "travolator" has become a kind of generic term in everyday use. However, since Otis lost the trademark rights to "escalator" in 1950 (Haughton Elevator Co. v. Seeberger, 85 U.S.P.Q. (BNA) 80 (Dec. Comm. Pat 1950)), it would seem to many that this Trav-O-Lator® specification is a sort of "damage-control" to protect the name of their specific product (and make up for past mistakes?). So, whereas in North America, moving walks are commonly referred to as "moving walks" or "moving sidewalks," and in Europe the more common moniker may be "travelator" (or some such variation in spelling), the only true Trav-O-Lator® is the product of the same name manufactured by Otis.
In this article, such distinctions (and requisite corrections) should be made.
Does that help clear things up? BFDhD 23:51, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
But, in accordance with Wikipedia:Manual of Style (trademarks), ® is avoided where possible, so I am removing it. Bill F 23:42, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Video clips
I have added some link to video clips of the Parisian high speed moving walkway and a self starting escalator in Essen, Germany. These are in mpg format and hosted on my own website, but to avoid bandwidth issues they feature very small image sizes. I would be happy to uplift versions with larger images sizes, but Wikipedia wants them in a file format which I do not know how to create. Citytransport.info 15:02, 30 January 2007 (UTC)User:Citytransport.info
[edit] The Roads Must Roll
In the science fiction section, it says the adjacent sections of The Roads Must Roll walkway differ by 20 km/h. At least in U.S. versions, this would not be a correct conversion. I believe the 20 km/h figure was derived from these phrases in the story: "Down the center of the twenty-mile-an-hour strip ran a glassite partition ... After passing through three more wind screens located at the forty, sixty, and eighty-mile-an-hour strips, respectively ..." However, these windscreens are not on every strip, but every fourth strip. Actually the speeds differ by 5 mph, or 8 km/h: "The hundred-mile strip alone had stopped; twenty feet away the next strip flew by at an unchecked ninety-five miles an hour." This highest-speed strip is later referred to in the story as "Strip 20" (not 5) and the one next to it as "Strip 19" (not 4). And the slowest strip itself is at 5 mph, not 20 km/h. Besides which, this article says that 100 mph, the fastest speed, is 180 km/h, but actually that converts to approximately 160 km/h (well, 161). Does a British version or other translation have 9 strips with the highest at 180 km/h? Tripsitinka (talk) 21:03, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
