"As an electrician, I needed a way to lean or rest my thighs when working on a ladder for long periods of time," said an inventor, from El Paso, Texas, "so I invented THE LAUGHTER. My design enables ...

There’s no doubt ladders can be unwieldy things to carry around - so much so that the ladder-carrying painter has become a staple of slapstick comedy. Unfortunately carrying a ladder around in real ...

London Design Festival 2013: Gothenburg designer Charlie Styrbjörn will present a ladder with curving linked rungs during the London Design Festival next month. Working under Charlie Styrbjörn Design, ...

A ladder with just one step secured a new £40,000 prize for a graduate designer. Cameron Rowley, 23, won the Conran Shop’s inaugural Designer of the Future award with his One Step Ladder design. Mr ...

The Conran Shop has announced the winner of its inaugural Designer of the Future Award as Cameron Rowley, a recent graduate of Kingston University. Designer of the Future was set up following the ...

Over the years, fire departments long have recognized the importance of carrying portable ground ladders on their apparatus. Engine company units typically have been equipped with a minimum of three ...

Strange as it may sound, I am still regularly called to investigate accidents involving ladders. In the workplace, OSHA, in 2011 Strange as it may sound, I am still regularly called to investigate ...