But the five-sided squirrel cage is being slow just now.
It looks like the wheels you sometimes see in squirrel cages.
Here: the squirrel cage that ran a muscle-powered lift, and the lines leading up.
It was even called a "squirrel cage", lacking in majesty.
Elephants are running in the squirrel cages and computers are their mahouts.
We were afraid we'd lost you to the old five-sided squirrel cage forever!
Then it felt like a squirrel cage, which compensated automatically to your own speed.
"Otherwise we can run circles in this squirrel cage for days."
In the early days, the chambers had been called "squirrel cages"; though immense, they were roughly of the same proportions.
The name is derived from the similarity between this rings-and-bars winding and a squirrel cage.