The paternoster is a doorless, conveyor-belt-style elevator that is largely extinct, except in Germany, where enthusiasts have kept the lifts running. Photo: Ellen Jervell/The Wall Street Journal ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The paternoster elevator — an open-doored lift that's on a loop and never stops moving — was invented in the late 1800s, though its construction was halted in ...

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty visited the famous Paternoster lifts of Prague to see if they are really the “elevators of ...