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cars in a controlled environment. Tests are also carried out in the test tower to ensure reliability and safety in current elevator designs and address any failures that may arise. Examples of an elevator test tower are the

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, the Solae Tower in

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, Japan, and the

Rottweil Test Tower The TK Elevator Test Tower (TK-Elevator-Testturm) is an elevator test tower in Rottweil, Germany. It is owned by TK Elevator, who have their elevator research campus nearby. It stands tall and was built to test the company's MULTI elevator sy ...

in Germany (owned by

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). In 1888, Otis completed an elevator test tower at their factory in

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; this was possibly the first elevator test tower in the United States.

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