a short string or cord with ten beads and some additional Paternoster beads. Affixed to one end, there was a ring to slip the tenner from one finger to the other (5 x 10). The opposite end was ...

The paternoster lift was invented in the 1860s by Peter Ellis, an architect from Liverpool. It uses open compartments on a continuously moving loop, one side going up, the other down. The name comes ...