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The Otis Elevator Company Factory Building is a historic industrial building located at 1435 W. 15th Street in the Near West Side neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The Otis Elevator Company had the factory built in 1900.
Otis elevator in Glasgow, Scotland, imported from the U.S. in 1856 for Gardner's Warehouse, the oldest cast-iron fronted building in the British Isles [7] Otis founded the Otis Elevator Company in Yonkers, New York, in 1853. When he died in 1861 his sons Charles and Norton formed a partnership and continued the business.
The building installed the world's first successful passenger elevator on March 23, 1857, a hydraulic lift designed for the building by Elisha Graves Otis.It cost $300, had a speed of .67 feet per second (0.20 m/s), [6] and was powered by a steam-engine installed in the basement. [4]
A small open-air baggage car was coupled to the downhill end of each passenger car. In April, 1899, the Otis Elevating Railway was sold for $10,000 in a foreclosure proceeding. [ 2 ] In August 1899, the owners of the Otis Elevating Railway announced plans to build an electric railroad from Saugerties, New York to the town of Catskill .
The new elevator, designed by Gordon E. Trapp, engineered by Ervin Aksel Sööt, and manufactured by Otis Elevator, featured push-button operation and automatic doors, [2] and shortened the ride to about 15 seconds. [3] It was dedicated May 5, 1955 and remains in service today. [2] [5] The machine room was upgraded with a digital controller in ...
A paternoster in Prague Paternoster elevator in The Hague, when it was still in operation. A paternoster (/ ˌ p eɪ t ər ˈ n ɒ s t ər /, / ˌ p ɑː-/, or / ˌ p æ-/) or paternoster lift is a passenger elevator which consists of a chain of open compartments (each usually designed for two people) that move slowly in a loop up and down inside a building without stopping.
In the northwest Detroit neighborhood he called home during the '60s, the Temptations' Otis Williams celebrated a new street designation in his name.
The Otis Elevator Company Building is a commercial building located in northwest Portland, Oregon listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [2] [3] The single-story building became the Otis Elevator Company's Portland headquarters in 1920, and was used for offices, servicing and parts storage. It remained in use by the Otis company ...