Picture this: a packed hall in New Yorks Crystal Palace in 1854. At the centre of attention was a man standing on a wooden platform high above the crowd. With a single dramatic gesture, he instructed ...

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 platform ...

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 that ...

In Manhattan’s new $10 million, 22-story Universal Pictures Building on Park Avenue, visitors were introduced last week to the latest elevator wrinkle. In Universal’s double bank of eight elevators ...

HUNTSVILLE, AL (WAFF) - March 23, 1857 marks an uplifting date in American History. It was on that date that Elisha Otis installed the first passenger safety elevator in New York City. His design kept ...