A Twitter account called “climbing stairs in video gaming” highlights stairs in video games. Judgment, a spin-off of the Yakuza series, has some of the best escalator physics we’ve ever seen.

And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac: August 9th, 1859, 156 years ago today ... the day the patent for a prototype escalator, called "revolving stairs," was awarded to a man named ...

The escalator was patented in 1892, and the design hasn’t changed much since then. The landing platforms make entry and exit dicey endeavors—particularly when the moving stairs disappear ...

Source: "Escalator and Stairs." Image by Karen Mardahl, Wikimedia, CC2.0 The Question “What if life came with little reminders to make healthy choices?” This intriguing question headlined an ...

J. Zacharias, R. Ling. Choosing Between Stairs and Escalator in Shopping Centers: The Impact of Location, Height, and Pedestrian Volume. Environment and Behavior , 2014; 47 (6): 694 DOI: 10.1177 ...

There are 232 escalators on New York City’s subway. They’re breaking down more frequently, even more than the elevators. ... So Eric Garment trudged up several flights of stairs.