Without elevators, cities wouldn’t exist as they do today. And without safety elevators, most people would never get on one. The first safety elevator — which, in the event of the cable breaking, ...

Elisha Otis invented the first passenger safety elevator - the patent for which can be seen here - 160 years ago Riding in an elevator used to be dangerous business - until Elisha Otis, of Otis ...

On Sept. 20, 1853, Elisha Graves Otis sold his first “hoist machine,” or elevator, featuring an automatic safety brake he had patented. His seemingly simple invention was designed to stop a platform ...

Elisha Otis demonstrates his new “safety elevator” at the Crystal Palace exposition hall in 1854. Though the illustration shows an assistant cutting the elevator cable with a knife, the Otis Elevator ...

After a demonstration of his new safety elevator at the New York World’s Fair in 1854, Elisha Otis, the inventor of the Otis elevator began a business that would end up making Otis elevators the world ...

Otis developed APIs allowing autonomous robots to communicate with and navigate elevators in commercial buildings.

Many technological advancements have changed the way we design in the past 150 years, but perhaps none has had a greater impact than the invention of the passenger elevator. Prior to Elisha Otis’ ...

Otis Elevator Co.’s quest to carry people up skyscrapers twice as tall as the Empire State Building harkens back to a pivotal innovation by its founder: ensuring that riders won’t plummet back to ...

Last week German conglomerate and elevator-maker ThyssenKrupp unveiled the 21st-century equivalent of Roald Dahl’s the Great Glass Elevator. MULTI doesn’t quite blast into space, but the cable-less ...

A donkey, an ancient Greek mathematician and a band of medieval monks all played a part in the invention of the modern elevator. But the stunt that made the contraption famous -- and forever altered ...