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Elisha Graves Otis
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Noun1.Elisha Graves Otis - United States inventor who manufactured the first elevator with a safety device (1811-1861)Elisha Graves Otis - United States inventor who manufactured the first elevator with a safety device (1811-1861)
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But it was Elisha Otis, cutting the rope on his lift with his sabre for a fee of $100 at the New York World's Fair of 1854 that started the modern lift industry and enabled city buildings to rise above four storeys.
Otis: Giving Rise to the Modern City. (Going Up) by Winter, John / The Architectural Review
Lift safety was already an issue almost 150 years ago, when inventor Elisha Otis demonstrated a revolutionary fail-safe device in New York in 1853.
THE HELLEVATOR; Couple's terror as Empire State lift falls 40 floors by Dowdney, Mark / The Mirror (London, England)
 
 
 
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