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Love that you’d have to take the stairs either from or to the elevator. True German accessibility.

"Germany, you can stop emailing me - I have finally taken a trip on your elevator" is the single most Tom Scott sentence ever uttered.

I express my gratitude to you on behalf of the entire German people

I love that Hannover claims to have the only curved elevator in the world. I went to college in the St. Louis area and did a study abroad program in Germany with Leibniz University. It was part of our presentation that we both claim to have the only curved elevators in the world.

Imagine being pestered for years about using an elevator and when you finally do, you still have to climb 5 floors of stairs 😂

The shots of Tom marching impatiently to the lift while the lady is languidly explaining it's history are killing me

I absolutely adore the solution to leveling it. Not every problem is significant enough to warrant the complexity required to solve it! I've worked with so many engineers who would hunger at the challenge without really considering if maybe they should just not touch.

That is really cool! I like the pragmatism of it - self levelling floor? Clever tilting cage? No, just go with a non-level floor for a minute - it's not going to hurt you.

My takeaway from this video is that we (germans) need to find more strange elevators to ask Tom to make videos about them

As a Hannoveranian, I can confirm that there are so many tourists that I never visited it.

As a german who wrote this elevator and thought "meh, it's an elevator", i am very happy for you, that you enjoyed it.

As a German thank you for teaching me about this elevator. I had no clue we got a curved elevator. I guess I have to visit Hannover now.

I'd always imagined Tom Scott to be the kind of person to take multiple steps at a time

Damn it now we need to find something else to keep emailing him about 😂

As a German I've found it really interesting over the years just how often Tom ended up in my country for these videos. We truly have some interesting stuff here.

It was about three quarters of the way though when I realised I misread the title and stopped waiting for a curved *escalator.*

Only in Germany would they invent some new and crazy engineering marvel to get around a small inconvenience

Tom needs to make an elevator series.

I lived in Hannover area 29 years, went even to school there for some years. I knew this elevator existed but never cared. I moved abroad last year and when I came back to visit my family I finally went up this summer. It took me more than 30 years and I needed to become a tourist to ride that elevator.

Seeing Tom Scott in a place where you commute to work every day presenting something which you also used a couple times feels odd... and kinda cool! Thanks for the video, Tom. As a Hanoverian I can proudly say that I never pestered you about any of this.

A classic closing line, Tom. "For a video about an elevator ride, that was a lot of steps."

As a Hannoveranian I am beyond delighted to see my hometown in a video with a reach of 6 million people

You had it easy, Tom. On a business trip in Köln, I decided to walk up the spiral staircase of the South spire of the St. Petrus Kölner Dom Cathedral. At over 300 ft., it is a workout!

I love seeing people go to my city and talk about it because hanover often gets left out when bigger citys like Cologne, Berlin or hamburg have so much more to offer. So thank you for education the world about my beloved City hanover

I hear Tom got so many e-mails about this lift that it literally drove him round the bend.

No matter how many interesting elevators Tom rides, he'll always be that funny long haired "two drums and a cymbal fall off a cliff" guy to me 😂

My cat was VERY into this. He loves all things mechanical and landscaping, very obsessed with landscaping videos 😹 Thank you for making his day❤️

Have lived about 25 years in Germany, watched a lot of goofy YT videos too, never ever heard of this elevator. Thanks for the post!

I love the shots of Tom rushing to get to the elevator, while the lady was talking.

Hanover is Germany’s best kept secret. Pretty sure that it has Europe’s biggest inner city forest. Up until relatively recently it was kinda cheap to stay in despite the amenities. Super flat to cycle everywhere and some weird and wonderful places like a curved elevator.

My wife's cousin took me to the Neues Rathaus when we visited relatives in Hannover in '98. The elevator was a unique experience. As it slowly moved forward along its angular track, I was concerned it might stall and leave us trapped. But it didn't happen. Great views of the city from the top.

Glad to see you mentioned the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, because that is exactly what I thought of when you mentioned a curved elevator.

Well, it took a lot of engineering, but Kudos Germany - you've made the world's least wheelchair accessible elevator. EDIT: IT'S A JOKE! Geeze! How do you some of you function?!

BRB, gonna become filthy rich and build a freaky elevator so we can bother Tom once again.

Tom, I don’t want to say I wouldn’t be here without you but you’re videos bring me joy and a life full of joy is a good one. Thanks tom.

As a former inhabitant of Hannover I can confirm: this is a very quirky elevator.

I love the annoyed energy that Tom has from start to finish in this video. From the thumbnail, to all of the stairs, to the shots where he’s literally just walking because there’s nothing more interesting to film, to the extremely mediocre view. This is an instant classic.

Love that you still have to walk up a narrow set of stairs before you reach the observation platform. It's not often that you see an elevator open to a flight of stairs.😂

This reminds me of St. Louis Arch in Missouri, USA where it also follows the curve. Been up that 3 times and each time is an experience.

That is amazing, I went past this town hall to go to school for 2 years and never knew this. Thanks Tom!

I live 50km from Hannover and have never heard of this elevator. Thanks Tom, for taking the ride for me, I would be too scared anyway. 😄

Thank you Tom Scott for always elevating my knowledge about the elevator industry

I live in Leipzig, which has the Völkerschlachtdenkmal (Monument to the Battle of Nations) which is one of the tallest memorials in the world and the tallest in Europe, constructed in 1913. There is an elevator now that can get you about halfway up but to get all the way to the top it is and always has been and always will be (bc there is no space for an elevator) stairs upon stairs upon stairs upon stairs. They say that in the past people would take especially visitors they didn't quite like up there (which is fully understandable. I've walked up there. It is way too many stairs and it gets incredibly narrow towards the top). It does have an amazing sound though. There are concerts held in there from time to time and I had the privilege to sing in one this year and I kid you not after you stop singing the echo lasts for at least 15s. It's incredible.

I like to imagine that the entire country of germany was emailing tom about their elevator

I’m so happy that Hannover finally made it into a Tom Scott video! And as a Hannoveraner I can confirm that we are very proud of our curved elevator.

Wow, never expected Tom Scott to visit the city that I grew up in that has a reputation for being "boring" within Germany. I took the elevator too many times as a child, though always found it a bit underwhelming, in my childish imagination I expected something more roller-coaster like, but the tilt was barely noticeable, even though I recognize it now as a feat of engineering for the time when it was constructed.

I went here a few months ago, its so crazy, and the views are amazing from the top

I can’t believe this video popped up on my recommended of you being in my hometown checking out that one curved elevator but here we are

Glad you mentioned the Gateway Arch. Also a very interesting "elevator". The museum underneath has tons of details about the construction and design challenges and is worth a visit for anyone visiting St. Louis.

As a hannoveranian and a true tom scott fan, I love that you finally visited us. There will probably be another video about water in hannover soon?

I'd never imagined to see the Hannover 96 Stadium in a Tom Scott video, but here we are

Vielen Dank, für ihren Beitrag. Die Kommentarsektion wird, von nun an, der Bundesregierung Deutschland angehören.

I recently rode the tram at Gateway Arch in St. Louis, glad you mentioned it briefly here. The self-leveling mechanism in that thing really makes for a strange experience indeed, even stranger, it's a tram where you start with cars left to right at ground level, and by the time it reaches the top the cars are organized right to left. This elevator here just maintains its orientation relative to the rails the whole way up, I find that absolutely hilarious!

Come on guys there must be a second peculiar elevator in Germany we can e-mail him about.

I have had nightmares about errant elevators. They go in all directions, and at the end of the dream trough the roof. 😂

i just love how he doesnt waste any time like other ytbers would do and just gets straight to it

In Stockholm, Sweden they have a elevator that curves up around a spherical building. It also happens to be the largest spherical building in the world too. 😁 But the tilting floor will sure make me nauseus because I'm sensitive to that since I have problems with motion sickness...

How very uplifting

Ok I'm born in Germany and I'm now 40 years old! I never heard of that cool elevator, but I'm very impressed!

The solutions you mentioned to keep the elevator level sounded complex, I’d think simply 2 large bearings (on which the entire elevator can rotate) positioned above the centre of gravity (so that it will always position itself along gravity) would be easiest

I was in an amusement park in germany recently and one of the coasters there also had a curving elevator (would first go strait up, then curve to one side, then curve back before going strait to the top again). Thing is they dont warn you about this before hand (that the ride brings you up with an elevator and that the elevator curves). Almost had a hard attack when the elevator suddenly moved in a direction it wasnt supposed to 😂. For those wondering it was in europapark and the ride was called matterhorn blitz

I swear Tom always gets a lift with these elvator videos.

Never knew about this elevator so far. Thanks for showing it. The new elevator looks neat. I appreciate that they kept it.

I klicked this Video randomly in my timeline.. and was suprised that you are in hanover - where i actually live. I was there a few times up as a teen and was often told that this wa special but I never felt this way :) Now I feel like its more special (20 years later) to see it in a YT Video :)) Greetings!

I'm gonna miss these kinds of silly little videos, Tom. I hope you continue to do things like these periodically, even after you wind down the series

Awesome elevator video Tom, but have you heard of the elevator in Hanover City Hall that goes up a dome?

3:11 immer wieder schön den gelben Sticker zu finden

This video about German dome elevators has taken my knowledge to a whole new level!

Another curved elevator is used to take people up to the top of the "Gateway Arch" in St Louis, US. It is 630 feet high and I travelled up it many years ago - it is quite scary.

I worked next to an elevator for years and the times I had to retrieve dropped keys from the shaft was unbelievable.

Great to see requests being done, thank you

This reminds me of the curved elevators in the St. Louis Gateway Arch. They have to follow the curve of that structure, too. Edit: I heard you mention it at 2:38. Nice

I've been in this elevator once. It makes me so happy to have been somewhere, Tom has been!

Tom needs a series just about elevators

Travelling hundreds of kilometres just to keep your inbox clean. That's called Inbox Zero dedication.

The way this elevator works is just kinda hard to believe, just like something out of a movie.

The elevators in the Gateway Arch in St Louis also must follow the curved path of the arch legs up to the top - as well as auto-rotate to stay level. I remember riding those cool little cars.

Didn’t read the title, only saw the courtyard tiles in the beginning and immediately knew where you were! I live in Hannover!!

They have closed it today for an unknown amount of time 😢. So good thing you‘ve had the oppurtunity to use it!☺️

Glad to see that you've took a ride in our elevator. It's funny to see a childhood memory and a for me normal thing in one of your videos. Greetings from Hannover! ^_^

As a German I can confirm it's very German to obsessively email him about things from our country. 😂

that ending pun was *chefs kiss*

As a german I've never heard of this elevator, but I'm glad that you rode it I guess.

Wait can we talk about how the "New Town Hall" was built 100 years ago but is still called "New Town Hall?"

You should have tried the curved elevator on the Montreal Tower when you visited the Olympic stadium there! It uses some of the hydraulic concepts you mentioned to keep the cabin vertical, and it has an amazing glass window view. :)

It's good you reacted to the emails, the Germans almost started to send the letters via the V1 with the V2 as back-up.

For a person from Norway, where our national broadcaster is world famous for live-broadcasting the Oslo to Bergen train trip "minute by minute" (lasting 7 hrs), the Besseggen hike (8.5 hours) Hurtigruten's (Express Route's) entire journey along the Norwegian coast (ca 135 hrs) and Svalbard minute by minute (222 hours), this Hanover Elevator "second by second" was sweet, educational and brief.

This a very rare instance of a Tom Scott video of a place or experience that I've actually been to or done before. Love it!

For once Tom goes somewhere I've already been! Saw this back in spring of 2010. Met some other American tourists on the way back down. I had spent my entire weekend speaking German, and when my brain suddenly had to speak English, I could hardly put 2 words together in my own native language!

Omg this video unlocked a memory 😂 I rode this elevator almost exactly 5 years ago (it was the election weekend around 15th october 2017) and simply forgot about it. The view is stunning and the nearby lake/pond looks kinda tiny from up there. Thanks for the memory refresher 😁

Nice ending. It like life, we expect an elevator, but we get Hanover, steps, and lumps.

I seem to get recurring dreams (not so much recently) where I get into "lifts", but they take me to entirely new buildings as they travel in all kinds of directions, like they morph into some kind of pod transport. There's also the lifts that never take me to where I want to go, and I end up getting out at some random location.

Hanover is my home town so when I tell you I SCREAMED after reating that title!!!!!!! Hoffe du hattest spass bie uns :)

I am a weird elevator guy(I install them) and I for one am so happy to have found this clip. 🙏🎉

I just realized that I don't even read the video title when Tom posts something. It's going to be interesting, enlightening, educational, awesome, or all of the above.

Yesss! Finally a Tom Scott video filmed in my home town!

FINALLY I can say that I lived long enough to see the Star Trek turbolift, only to find out it has been in existence since 1913. Wow!

imagine saying it was not worth it at the end

This is a great time to email Tom about the curved elevator ride.