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  2. Elisha Otis - Wikipedia

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    Elisha Graves Otis (August 3, 1811 – April 8, 1861) was an American industrialist and founder of the Otis Elevator Company. [1] In 1853, he invented a safety device that prevents elevators from falling if the hoisting cable fails.

  3. Otis Worldwide - Wikipedia

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    The company pioneered the development of the "safety elevator", invented by Elisha Otis in 1852, which used a special mechanism that locked the elevator car in place against hoisting rope failure. The Otis Elevator Company was acquired by United Technologies in 1976, but it was spun off as an independent company 44 years later in April 2020 as ...

  4. Otis family - Wikipedia

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    Although not much is known about John Otis, his son, John Otis (generally referred to as "Judge Otis") was the first of the family to rise to provincial eminence. Judge Otis held a variety of judicial and military appointments and represented Barnstable County for 20 successive years in the general court of Massachusetts Bay. In 1708, he was ...

  5. Railroad Safety Appliance Act - Wikipedia

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    The Safety Appliance Act is a United States federal law that made air brakes and automatic couplers mandatory on all trains in the United States. It was enacted on March 2, 1893, and took effect in 1900, after a seven-year grace period.

  6. William Otis - Wikipedia

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    William Smith Otis (September 20, 1813 – November 13, 1839) was an American inventor of the steam shovel. Otis received a patent for his creation on February 24, 1839. Otis excavator. In 1839 William Smith Otis, civil engineer of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was issued a US patent for the steam shovel (No. 1,089) for excavating and (removing ...

  7. File:Otis logo.SVG - Wikipedia

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    The following other wikis use this file: Usage on ar.wikipedia.org مصاعد أوتيس; Usage on bg.wikipedia.org Otis Elevator Company; Usage on cs.wikipedia.org

  8. Elisha Perkins - Wikipedia

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    Elisha Perkins (January 16, 1741 – September 6, 1799) was a United States physician who created a fraudulent medical device, the Perkins Patent Tractors. [1] Although they were made of steel and brass , Perkins claimed that they were made of unusual metal alloys.

  9. Elisha Gray - Wikipedia

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    Elisha Gray (August 2, 1835 – January 21, 1901) was an American electrical engineer who co-founded the Western Electric Manufacturing Company. Gray is best known for his development of a telephone prototype in 1876 in Highland Park, Illinois .

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