Everything about Elisha Otis totally explained
Elisha Graves Otis (
August 3 1811 —
April 8 1861), son of Stephen Otis Jr. and wife Pheobe Glynn, invented a safety device that prevented
elevators from falling if the hoisting cable broke. He worked on this safety device while living in
Yonkers, New York in
1852, and then finally had a finished product in 1854.
Otis was born near
Halifax, Vermont. He moved away from home at the age of 19, eventually settling in
Troy, New York, where he lived for 5 years. At the
New York Crystal Palace, Elisha Otis amazed a crowd when he ordered the only rope holding the platform on which he was standing cut. The rope was severed by an axeman, and the platform fell only a few inches before coming to a halt. His new safety brake had stopped the platform from crashing to the ground and revolutionized the industry.
Otis sold his first safety elevators in
1853. The first passenger elevator was installed by him in
New York in
1857. After Otis's death in
1861, his sons, Charles and Norton, built on his heritage, creating Otis Brothers & Co. in
1867.
Otis's invention increased public confidence in elevators, and therefore allowed for the mass construction of a new trend of building: the
skyscraper. The company he founded became known as the
Otis Elevator Company, the largest elevator company in the world. Today, it's a division of
United Technologies Corporation.
Today, the Otis family owns a home along the
Intracoastal Waterway in
Fort Lauderdale,
Florida.
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