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 that locked the elevator car in place against hoisting rope failure. The Otis Elevator Company...

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

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...

League Baseball player Bill Otis (1889–1990), American Major League Baseball player Charles Otis (disambiguation) Elisha Otis (1811–1861), American inventor...

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...

watercolorist Kyra Markham, painter and actress Elisha Otis, inventor and entrepreneur of safe elevators Norton P. Otis, New York politician George Gilbert Swain...

Prentiss Otis (March 18, 1840 – February 20, 1905) was a U.S. Representative from New York. Otis was born in Halifax, Vermont. His father was Elisha Otis, inventor...

Howard Armstrong (1890–1954), electronics pioneer Elisha Otis, inventor of the safety elevator and Otis Elevator Company Alexander Smith, founder of Alexander...

transatlantic telegraph cable laid First safety elevator installed by Elisha Otis Railroads begin to supplant canals in the United States as a primary...

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Water power created manufacturing jobs.: 2  Elisha Otis invented a safety elevator in 1853, and the Otis Elevator Company opened the world's first elevator...

intelligence yet makes references to obscure historical figures like Earl Butz, Elisha Otis and Granuaile O'Malley. She is repulsed by people with cancer (although...

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Telephone & Telegraph Company and built a great communications network. Elisha Otis developed the elevator, allowing the construction of skyscrapers and...

decorated glass cupolas. The safety elevator had been invented in 1852 by Elisha Otis, making tall buildings practical. The first skyscraper, the Home Insurance...

improvements to the wet plate collodion process (Ambrotype photography). Elisha Otis completes work on the safety elevator. 10 June – The Crystal Palace reopens...

Christian Ørsted (1777–1851), Denmark – electromagnetism, aluminium Elisha Otis (1811–1861), U.S. – safety system for elevators William Oughtred (1575–1660)...

1841.[contradictory] The invention of the safety elevator in 1852 by Elisha Otis enabled the rapid upward escalation of buildings. By the end of the 19th...

Cayley's gliders achieved brief wing-borne hops from around 1849. 1852 – Elisha Otis invents the safety elevator. 1853 – Sir George Cayley built and demonstrated...

block to incorporate passenger elevators, hydraulic examples by the Elisha Otis company. June 23 – Keble College, Oxford, designed by William Butterfield...

These were not accepted for passenger carrying though, until 1854 and Elisha Otis' invention of the safety brake, to prevent the carriage falling if the...

skyscraper. Several technical advances made this possible. In 1853, Elisha Otis invented the first safety elevator which prevented a car from falling...

humaine et des causes qui produisent ces variétés maladives. March 23 – Elisha Otis' first elevator is installed (at 488 Broadway (Manhattan)). The first...

recently given to the tall buildings that had been made possible by Elisha Otis' invention of the safety elevator. At the age of twenty-five he was made...