Engineers

Elisha Otis

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Technology and Engineering Atlas. "Elisha Otis." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-technology.interactiveatlas.org/engineers/elisha-otis.

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Technology and Engineering Atlas. (n.d.). Elisha Otis. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-technology.interactiveatlas.org/engineers/elisha-otis

BibTeX

@misc{technologyandengineeringatlas-elisha-otis,
  author = {Technology and Engineering Atlas},
  title = {Elisha Otis},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dev-technology.interactiveatlas.org/engineers/elisha-otis},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

American industrialist and founder of the Otis Elevator Company, who introduced the safety elevator in 1852, preventing a cab's fall if its cable broke.

Facts

Birth Year

1811 1

Birth Date

1811-08-03 1

Death Year

1861 1

Death Date

1861-04-08 1

Nationality

American 1

Cross-Tradition Connections

Invented

Elevator

Source Elevator (Wikipedia)

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1. 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.

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Elevator (Wikipedia)

WikipediaInvented: Elevator, History section (inventor attribution)

Quote, Invented: Elevator, History section (inventor attribution)

In 1852, Elisha Otis introduced the safety elevator, which prevented the fall of the cab if the cable broke.

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