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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Elisha Otis invented the first passenger safety elevator - the patent for which can be seen here - 160 years ago Riding in an ...

The first passenger elevator got off to a slow start. Installed in 1857 at the Haughwout Department Store in New York, it was shut down after just three years because customers refused to accept it.

This, the first passenger elevator, was installed in a New York department store in 1857. The elevator is not round, though the first passenger elevator shaft, installed a mile north of this store, ...

For nearly a year, in the course of producing the NOVA documentary "Trapped in an Elevator," I've been immersed in the fascinating lore of perhaps the least appreciated—but arguably most critical—form ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American 2013 marks 160 years since Elisha Graves Otis ...

FARMINGTON — With nothing to do while riding between floors, passengers are easy marks for Otis Elevator. The world’s most recognizable name in elevator manufacturing is capitalizing on digital ...

At age 150 or so, elevators have already achieved many technological changes, speeding passengers up hundreds of floors with relatively little energy and in less space than ever, The Associated Press ...

Elevators that have been transformed since Elisha Otis invented the safety brake in 1853 are going through another wave of change as office workers and apartment dwellers face new demands brought on ...

Staff Writer Riding in an elevator used to be dangerous business — until Elisha Otis, of Otis Elevator Company fame, invented a device that could prevent a passenger elevator from falling if its rope ...