Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (1988).
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Elisha Otis
Elisha Graves Otis was an American industrialist and founder of the Otis Elevator Company. In 1853, he invented a safety device that prevents elevators from falling if the hoisting cable fails. On March 23, 1857, he installed the first safety elevator for passenger service in the store of E.V. Haughwout & Co. in New York City.
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business · 19th-century American industrialist and inventor of the Otis Elevator · inventor · elevator mechanic · businessperson · engineer · entrepreneur · also Elisha Otis, Elis Graves Otis, Elisha Graves Otis, Otis
Born 3 August 1811 · Died 8 April 1861 · Q171413
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1861· 1 entry
Died 1861-04-08.
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1857· 2 entries
Installed the first safety elevator for passenger service in the store of E
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A rotary oven in 1858, and, with Charles, the oscillating steam engine in 1860
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1854· 2 entries
Demand for the safety elevator began to rise
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“On the Educational Value of the Natural History Sciences”
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1853· 1 entry
Invented a safety device that prevents elevators from falling if the hoisting cable fails
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1848· 1 entry
Otis started his business, Hudson Manufactory, to produce and market his invention
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1845· 1 entry
Otis married Elizabeth Boyd and moved to Albany, New York
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1842· 1 entry
Leaving him with two sons, one age eight and the other in infancy
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1811· 2 entries
Born 1811-08-03.
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In Halifax, Vermont, to Stephen Otis and Phoebe Glynn
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