Elisha Graves Otis (August 3, 1811 – April 8, 1861) was an American industrialist and founder of the Otis Elevator Company. In 1853, he invented a safety...

invented by Elisha Otis in 1852, which used a special mechanism to lock the elevator car in place should the hoisting ropes fail. The Otis Elevator Company...

Spanish–American War and during the Philippine–American War. Elisha Otis (1811–1861), founder of Otis Elevator Company, inventor of safety device that prevented...

William Smith Otis (September 20, 1813 – November 13, 1839) was an American inventor of the steam shovel. Otis received a patent for his creation on February...

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was confirmed to convert the derelict building into offices. In 1857, Elisha Otis introduced the safety elevator at the E. V. Haughwout Building in New...

inventing the "standing rope control" for an elevator in 1850. In 1852, Elisha Otis introduced the safety elevator, which prevented the fall of the cab if...

elevators. Three years later, Otis installed the first passenger elevator in the United States in a New York City store. Elisha Otis demonstrated an elevator...

interest in the Palace, but by the end of 1856 it was a dead property. Elisha Otis demonstrated the safety elevator, which prevented the fall of the cab...

further important step forward was the invention of the safety elevator by Elisha Otis, first demonstrated at the New York Crystal Palace exposition in 1854...