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	Elisha - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Elisha, in the Old Testament (see 2 Kings 2-13), Hebrew prophet, the disciple and successor of Elijah.
		Gray, Elisha (1835-1901), American inventor, born in Barnesville, Ohio, and educated at Oberlin College.
		Otis, Elisha Graves (1811-1861), American inventor and manufacturer.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Elisha.html (90 words)

	Elisha Otis - MSN Encarta
		Elisha Graves Otis was born in Halifax, Vermont.
		He was a pioneer in the construction and manufacture of steam-powered elevators and elevator devices.
		In 1857 he designed and installed the first passenger elevators in the U.S.; this achievement heralded the age of the skyscraper.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761573462/Otis_Elisha_Graves.html (98 words)

	Discover how Elisha Otis became famous.
		Elisha Otis was born on August 11, 1811 outside Halifax, Vermont.
		Otis, who had already tested out his safety brake on the railways when he was working at Tingley, came up with the solution, and thus, the elevator safety brake was invented.
		Elisha Otis lived long enough to witness the installation of the first elevator designed to transport people in 1857.
	www.history1700s.com /store/elisha-otis.shtml (339 words)

	Invent Now \| Hall of Fame \| Search \| Inventor Profile
		Elisha Graves Otis didn't invent the elevator, he invented something perhaps more important-the elevator brake-which made skyscrapers a practical reality.
		Otis had no way of knowing that this simple safety device was to alter the face of the globe, that because of it vast cities would spring up toward the sky instead of spreading toward the horizon as in the past.
		In 1854 Otis dramatized his safety device on the floor of the Crystal Palace Exposition in New York.
	www.invent.org /hall_of_fame/115.html (324 words)

	Elisha Graves Otis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Invention: Elisha invented the break for the elevator using a tough, steel wagon spring meshing with a ratchet.
		Elisha was working in a factory in New York when he decided to make a break for the hoist that was used to take heavy objects up to other floors.
		* Elisha Otis was born in Halifax, Vermont.
	www.edu.pe.ca /kish/Grassroots/meet/logana.htm (135 words)

	Today in Technology History - Jan 15
		Otis was a mechanic and inventor; among his inventions was a safety brake for locomotives.
		Otis then went on to invent a safety device, basically a strong steel ratchet, that would keep the hoist from falling.
		Otis received a patent on January 15, 1861 for an "Improvement in Hoisting Apparatus," which is considered the first patent for a modern elevator.
	www.tecsoc.org /pubs/history/2002/jan15.htm (267 words)

	United Technologies Corporation -- Book celebrates Otis’ history of innovation
		As Otis prepares to celebrate its 150th anniversary in 2003, a new history tells the tale of a company built on a simple premise: a safe and reliable elevator.
		It wasn’t Otis going up that dazzled the crowd-it was Otis not coming down with a crash after he slashed the hoisting rope with a saber.
		Elisha was not too proud to take the money from the man who had given the world the Bearded Lady, the Feejee Mermaid and the man who dived into a teacup from a circus roof.
	www.utc.com /press/highlights/innovation.htm (585 words)

	Elisha Graves Otis Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		The American manufacturer and inventor Elisha Graves Otis (1811-1861) was one of the inventors of the modern elevator and founded a company for their manufacture.
		Elisha Otis was born near Halifax, Vermont, where his father was for many years a justice of the peace and a state legislator.
		In 1852 the firm sent Otis to Yonkers, New York, to supervise the installation of machinery in a new factory, and there he made some improvements in the elevator with which he was working.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/elisha-graves-otis (427 words)

	Elisha Graves Otis
		OTIS, Elisha Graves, inventor, born in Halifax, Windham County, Vermont, 13, August, 1811; died in Yonkers, New York, 8 April, 1861.
		Otis claimed that this method was wrong in principle, as in the moment of danger the operator would become confused, and his views were soon proved correct by the fall of an elevator in the New York factory of his firm.
		Otis placed therein a small working machine, and by exhibitions of its safety features by practical tests considerable attention was attracted to his inventions.
	www.famousamericans.net /elishagravesotis (463 words)

	Otis, Elisha Graves (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Otis was born in Halifax, Vermont, and became a builder and mechanic.
		Generally the lifts were powered by steam engines and in 1860 Otis patented and improved the double oscillatory machine specially designed for his lifts.
		Also from the workshops of his company, Otis invented and patented railway trucks and brakes, a steam plough, and a baking oven.
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/O/Otis/1.html (191 words)

	The Inventors (E)
		Elisha Graves Otis didn't invent the elevator, he invented something perhaps more important-the elevator safety device that eventually made high-rise buildings practical.
		Otis had no way of knowing that this simple safety device was to change the attitude of the public towards be lifted within multi-storied buildings.
		Elisha Otis followed his demonstration with the patenting of an "Improved Hoisting Apparatus in 1861.
	www.theelevatormuseum.org /e/E-5.htm (362 words)

	Otis Marks 150th Anniversary of the Modern Elevator (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		One-hundred-fifty Otis leaders from around the world joined 150 employees from Connecticut and New York at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York to watch the re-enactment and celebrate the company’s heritage.
		Otis elevators can be found in many renowned structures around the world, including the Vatican, the Statue of Liberty, Petronas Towers and Buckingham Palace.
		Otis Elevator Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation, is the world's largest manufacturer and maintainer of people moving products, including elevators, escalators, shuttle systems and moving walkways.
	www.otis.com /news/newsdetail/0,1368,cli1_nid16925_res1,00.html (571 words)

	Elevator History - Invention of the Elevator (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Otis is part of United Technologies Corporation, a Fortune 500 company and world leader in the building systems and aerospace industries.
		Elisha Otis inducted 1988 for his invention Improvement in Hoisting Apparatus Elevator Brake, Patent Number 31,128.
		Otis Elevators is the world's largest company in the manufacture and service of elevators, escalators, moving walkways and other horizontal transportation systems.
	www.ideafinder.com /history/inventions/story049.htm (1516 words)

	Otis - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Elisha Otis invented a safety device for hoisting machinery and went on to invent the first passenger elevator.
		Harrison Gray Otis was a publisher of the Los Angeles Times.
		Otis College of Art and Design A well known private 4 year art college located in Los Angeles, California.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Otis (223 words)

	Otis, Elisha Graves - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		OTIS, ELISHA GRAVES [Otis, Elisha Graves] 1811-61, American inventor, b.
		Otis Marks 150th Anniversary of the Modern Elevator; Dramatic Re-Enactment of Elisha Graves Otis' Watershed Rope-Cutting Demonstration Commemorates Invention's Global Impact.
		Otis Elevator Company to Mark the 150th Anniversary Of the Invention of the Elevator.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-otis-e1li.html (242 words)

	Inventor of the Week: Archive
		Otis' employer needed an elevator that could carry people and equipment safely to the upper floors of its new building.
		A large crowd watched breathlessly from the floor far below as Otis ascended in his new elevator.
		The key to Otis' invention was a toothed guiderail located on each side of the elevator shaft that caught the elevator car.
	web.mit.edu /invent/iow/otis.html (260 words)

	ZDNet India > News > features > Going Up!
		Otis climbed on board and the platform was raised to its full height.
		Customers associate the Otis brand with safety, and this year, the company is celebrating its 150th year of being a leader in its line of business of manufacturing and servicing elevators, escalators and travelators, worldwide, and 50 years in India.
		Otis India, while being the market leader in the country, felt the need to pull up its socks and modernizing, in order to maintain its leadership.
	www.zdnetindia.com /news/features/stories/98499.html (1806 words)

	Student Work - Deadline in Depth
		It was a revolutionary moment — if not today, then in back 1853, when Elisha Graves Otis first demonstrated his invention, a locking device that would pave the way for the modern elevator and ultimately make high-rise buildings practical.
		He was one of about 300 Otis employees the company transported from Connecticut to witness the re-enactment.
		Otis is the world's largest manufacturer of elevators, escalators and moving walks.
	www.jrn.columbia.edu /studentwork/deadline/2003/otis-banikarim.asp (715 words)

	The Otis Elevator Company is the world s largest manufacturer of... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		The "Otis Elevator Company" is the world's largest manufacturer of vertical transportation systems, principally elevator elevators and escalator escalators.
		Founded in Yonkers Yonkers, New York New York in the United States United States in 1853 1853 by Elisha Otis Elisha Otis, the the company pioneered the development of the safety elevator, which used a special mechanism to lock the elevator car in place should the hoisting ropes fail.
		Otis has been responsible for installing the elevators in some of the world's most famous tall structures including the Eiffel Tower Eiffel Tower, Empire State Building Empire State Building and World Trade Center World Trade Center.
	www.biodatabase.de /Otis (232 words)

	Who Made America? \| Innovators \| Elisha Otis
		Although the concept of a powered hoist had been around for some time, Elisha Otis designed the first elevator that could lift and lower people and cargo safely.
		Born to a Vermont farmer in 1811, young Elisha preferred hanging around the flsmith's forge to working on the farm.
		Otis designed the first safe elevator when he needed to lift heavy building materials, while converting a sawmill into a factory in Yonkers, New York.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/theymadeamerica/whomade/otis_hi.html (402 words)

	TIME.com: Up & Down with Otis -- Jun. 28, 1948 -- Page 1
		Otis' biggest job was the $3 ½ million installation of 74 elevators in the Empire State Building.
		Elisha Otis' original safety catch has been succeeded by scores of automatic speed and leveling controls.
		Until 1945, Otis boasted that not one of its passenger elevators had ever fallen because of broken cables.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,779921,00.html (725 words)

	Skylines: Innovation's Impact on the Rise of Humanity
		Otis claims his invention, which consists of brakes that catch the elevator car if the cables fail, makes the elevator safe for everyday public use.”
		With their innovations, Otis and Roebling completely altered the horizontal history of humanity by making it possible to go vertical.
		Some might say then, that Otis and Roebling could be called the fathers of the modern city skyline.
	www.inventhelp.com /innovation-of-elevators-skylines.asp (674 words)

	Elisha Graves Otis Biography \| scit_05123456_package.xml
		Born in Halifax, Vermont, in 1811, Elisha Graves Otis was a hard-working New Englander with exceptional talents in improving old machines and inventing new ones.
		Working as a master mechanic in 1852 for a company in Bergen, New Jersey, he was sent to Yonkers, New York, to operate a new factory and install its machinery.
		Otis died in 1861 but the company he founded is still in business.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/elisha-graves-otis-scit-05123456 (147 words)

	Amazon.com: Otis: Giving Rise to the Modern City: A History of the Otis Elevator Company: Books: Jason Goodwin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Though various sorts of elevators had been in use for many years, it was Elisha Otis's invention of an automatic safety device in the years before the Civil War that made them practical and dependable.
		Under the more business-savvy leadership of Elisha's son, Charles, the company was able to capitalize on the go-go postwar economy to become dominant in the field, with an unmatched reputation for safety and craftsmanship.
		This book, produced by United Technologies, Otis' parent corporation, could have just been a promotional piece, but to the credit of the author I found it to be a well researched, well written chronical of Otis' humble New York beginnings in 1853 through today's global presence.
	www.amazon.com /Otis-Modern-History-Elevator-Company/dp/1566633850 (1260 words)

	Charles R(ollin) Otis Biography - Biography.com
		Working with his father, Elisha Otis, he persuaded him to open his own elevator factory to capitalize on Elisha's crucial inventions.
		After Elisha's death (1861), Charles continued inventing and patenting improvements at the Yonkers elevator factory, while his brother Norton P(rentiss) (1840–1905) worked in sales.
		Otis Brothers & Co was organized in 1864 with Charles as president and Norton as treasurer.
	www.biography.com /search/article.jsp?aid=9430417 (147 words)

	Otis helped define modern skyline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Otis, now part of Hartford-based United Technologies Corp., remains the largest manufacturer of elevators and escalators in the world with a market share of 26 percent.
		In 1811, Elisha Graves Otis was born on a farm in rural Vermont.
		In 1852, Otis "hit upon the answer, a tough steel wagon spring meshing with a ratchet," reads an overview from the Inventors Hall of Fame.
	www.thejournalnews.com /business2003/newsroom/k36w30bzinventstoryo.html (1239 words)

	World Almanac for Kids
		OTIS, Elisha Graves (1811–61), American inventor and manufacturer, born in Halifax, Vt. He was a pioneer in the construction and manufacture of steam-powered elevators and elevator devices.
		In 1854, at an exposition in New York City, he demonstrated his most important invention, an automatic safety device for stopping an elevator should the supporting cables break.
		Shortly before his death he patented a steam-driven elevator, the basis of the Otis Elevator Co.
	www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/inventions/otis_elisha.html (92 words)

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