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Moving walkways debuted at an industrial exhibition

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Providing tired pedestrians with a flattened escalator revolutionized terminal exhaustion. First showcased to move masses of people across a massive fairground, the mechanized rubber belts now exclusively exist to speed up frantic dashes between distant transit gates.

Moving walkways debuted at an industrial exhibition
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