USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY can trace its origins to 1853, when Elisha Graves Otis introduced the first safety passenger elevator at the Crystal Palace Convention in New York City. His invention impressed spectators at the convention, and the first passenger elevator was installed in New York City in 1856.

Detailed explanation-2: -Elisha Otis, in full Elisha Graves Otis, (born August 3, 1811, Halifax, Vermont, U.S.-died April 8, 1861, Yonkers, New York), American inventor of the safety elevator.

Detailed explanation-3: -Elisha Graves Otis didn’t invent the elevator; he invented something perhaps more important – the elevator brake – which made skyscrapers a practical reality.

Detailed explanation-4: -Riding in an elevator used to be dangerous business-until Elisha Otis, of Otis Elevator Company fame, invented a device that could prevent a passenger elevator from falling if its rope broke. It debuted precisely 160 years ago at the E.V. Haughwout and Company store in Manhattan on March 23, 1857.

Detailed explanation-5: -The first human-powered, counter-weighted, personal elevator was built in 1743 for King Louis XV of France. It connected his apartment in Versailles to that of his mistress, Madame de Chateauroux, who lived one floor above him. Elevator technology began to advance significantly in the 19th century.