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What does the picture of Elisha g Otis at the New York Crystal Palace look like?
What is Elisha G. Otis natoinality
What nationality is elisha g Otis?
American
Elisha g Otis born?
Vermont
What did Elisha G Otis invent in 1852?
Elevator Safety Brake
What year did Elisha G Otis invent the elevator?
elisha was American and was the actual inventor of the elevator break in 1850
What is Elisha Graves Otis's birthday?
elisha Otis was 50 when he died He was actually 49 when he passed, 4 months short of being 50.
What did Elisha G Otis invent?
He invented a elevator with a safty break.
When did Elisha G Otis invent the elevator brakes?
Elisha Graves Otis invented the elevator brakes (and thus the first safe elevator) in 1853. His invention made skyscrapers possible.
When was William G. Otis born?
William G. Otis was born in 1946.
When was John G. Otis born?
John G. Otis was born in 1838.
When was Otis G. Pike born?
Otis G. Pike was born on 1921-08-31.
Elisha G Otis?
In the mid-1850s elevators were too dangerous to be used for anything but freight. If the rope snapped, a rider would certainly risk life and limb. It was this problem that Elisha G. Otis solved in 1854. Otis had a knack for things mechanical. By age fifteen, he was already an engineer at a bedstead factory. In 1852 Otis was sent to Yonkers to supervise the construction of a new factory, and it was there that he developed several new enhancements to the elevators as they were being designed and installed. Otis' elevators were equipped with a simple spring device that would trigger if the cable broke and prevent the elevator from falling. The invention was patented, and Scientific American called the device "excellent." Otis built a similar elevator at another factory, and while he was installing that one, he received a request for another. Otis was encouraged by the interest in his elevator and formed the E. G. Otis Company in 1853. Then, orders virtually stopped. Companies were simply unwilling to build an elevator for public use. To address this fear, Otis decided to prove his safety device's usefulness by building an elevator and demonstrating it to the crowds at a New York fair. Although he was successful, orders still came slowly. It was not until 1857 that Otis finally built his first elevator specifically for passenger use. Although he died in 1861, Otis's sons took the company into prosperity, and by the turn of the century, Otis elevators were a key element in the appearance of skyscrapers.
