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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. Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations - Wikipedia

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    Elisha Otis demonstrated an elevator equipped with a device called a safety brake, which revolutionized the industry completely; David Alter displayed a method to manufacture and purify bromine from salt wells, highly useful in the iron industry; The world's first pedal quadracycle was shown

  4. 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 ...

  5. craigslist - Wikipedia

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    Craigslist headquarters in the Inner Sunset District of San Francisco prior to 2010. The site serves more than 20 billion [17] page views per month, putting it in 72nd place overall among websites worldwide and 11th place overall among websites in the United States (per Alexa.com on June 28, 2016), with more than 49.4 million unique monthly visitors in the United States alone (per Compete.com ...

  6. Norton P. Otis - Wikipedia

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    Coat of Arms of Norton P. Otis. Otis was born in Halifax, Vermont. His father was Elisha Otis, inventor of the safety elevator and a descendant of the Otis family that is counted among the Boston Brahmin families. He attended public schools in Halifax, Albany, Hudson, and Yonkers, New York.

  7. Category:Otis Worldwide - Wikipedia

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  8. UTC Climate, Controls & Security - Wikipedia

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    UTC Climate, Controls & Security; Formerly: UTC Building & Industrial Systems (July 2003- renamed UTC Fire & Security April 2005) Industry: Fire detection, Fire suppression, Combustion Control, Physical Security, Electronic Security Heating, Ventilating, Air Conditioning, Refrigeration

  9. Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 116 - Wikipedia

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    The purpose is to reduce failures in hydraulic braking systems of motor vehicles which may occur because of the manufacture or use of improper or contaminated fluid. The standard applies to all fluid use of passenger cars, multipurpose passenger vehicles, trucks, buses, trailers and motorcycles equipped with a hydraulic brake system. [1]

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