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Elisha Otis

1811 - 1861

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Elisha Graves Otis (August 3, 1811 – April 8, 1861) was an American industrialist and founder of the Otis Elevator Company. In 1853, he invented a safety device that prevents elevators from falling if the hoisting cable fails. On March 23, 1857, he installed the first safety elevator for passenger service in the store of E.V. Haughwout & Co. in New York City. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Elisha Otis is the 102nd most popular inventor (down from 95th in 2019), the 1,502nd most popular biography from United States (down from 1,124th in 2019) and the 30th most popular American Inventor.

Elisha Otis invented the elevator in 1853.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Elisha Otis ranks 102 out of 426. Before him are Leo Fender, Daniel Swarovski, John Harrison, Momofuku Ando, Alexander Stepanovich Popov, and Richard Arkwright. After him are Charles-Émile Reynaud, Kōnosuke Matsushita, Henry Bessemer, Étienne-Jules Marey, Orban, and Walter Hunt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1811, Elisha Otis ranks 17. Before him are Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Vissarion Belinsky, Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern, François Achille Bazaine, Louis Blanc, and Ambroise Thomas. After him are Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, George Gilbert Scott, Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, Jón Sigurðsson, Auguste Bravais, and Jules Dupré. Among people deceased in 1861, Elisha Otis ranks 17. Before him are Pavel Jozef Šafárik, Lola Montez, Ranavalona I, Eugène Scribe, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, and Adam Jerzy Czartoryski. After him are Henri Murger, Lars Levi Laestadius, Eugène de Mazenod, Heinrich Marschner, Henry Gray, and Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Elisha Otis ranks 1,502 out of 20,380. Before him are Ed Wood (1924), Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington (1920), Sean Baker (1971), Andrew S. Tanenbaum (1944), Arthur Penn (1922), and Samuel C. C. Ting (1936). After him are Annie Jump Cannon (1863), Moe Tucker (1944), Kim Kardashian (1980), Chris Evert (1954), Muddy Waters (1913), and Tom Berenger (1949).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Elisha Otis ranks 30. Before him are Ruth Handler (1916), George Eastman (1854), John Browning (1855), Ray Tomlinson (1941), Raymond Damadian (1936), and Leo Fender (1909). After him are Walter Hunt (1796), David Bushnell (1742), Josiah Warren (1798), Jacque Fresco (1916), Robert Noyce (1927), and George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. (1859).

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