The man, unshaken, declared, All safe, gentlemen! That man was Elisha Otis, and this breathtaking stunt proved the reliability of his revolutionary elevator safety brake. Today, his name is ...

Riding in an elevator used to be dangerous business — until Elisha Otis, of Otis Elevator Company fame, invented a device that could prevent a passenger elevator from falling if its rope broke.

For nearly a year, in the course of producing the NOVA documentary "Trapped in an Elevator," I've been immersed in the fascinating lore of perhaps the least appreciated—but arguably most ...

On Sept. 20, 1853, Elisha Graves Otis sold his first “hoist machine,” or elevator, featuring an automatic safety brake he had patented. His seemingly simple invention was designed to stop a ...

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The OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY can trace its origins to 1853, when Elisha Graves Otis introduced the first safety passenger elevator at the Crystal Palace Convention in New York City. His invention ...

Elisha Graves Otis born on August 3, 1811, was an American industrialist and founder of the Otis Elevator Company. The success of his company was made possible by his invention of a safety device ...

The skyline of Manhattan—or of any other metropolis—would be completely different were it not for the Otis Elevator Co. Founder Elisha Graves Otis made the first safe and practical elevator in ...

Otis became a publicly traded company in 2020 ... due to an invention revealed to the public in 1853 by US entrepreneur Elisha Otis: The "safety elevator" with a locking mechanism to prevent ...

During the celebration, Otis profiled its Gen2 Switch product line of elevators that reduce power usage by elevators, is solar-power capable, and uses batteries when the power goes out.

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