the invention of the elevator

  • 200 BCE

    stairs

    the stairs where invented 200 b.c. and the rails where just walls
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  • Elevator

    Modern elevators were developed during the 1800's. These crude elevators slowly from steam driven to hydraulic power. The first hydraulic were designed using water pressure as the source of power. They were used for conveying materials in factories, warehouses, and mines
  • Elisha otis

    Otis, Elisha Graves was an american inventor who built invented the first elevator with a safety device (source) world book.com
  • automatic

    Otis built the elevator with a automatic safety device that would stop the elevator from falling so that if the rope that held the elevator broke. (source) world book.com
  • An elevator

    Riding a elevator used to be dangerous buisness, intill Elisha,otis of otis elevator company fame invented a device that could prevent a passenger from falling if its rope broke. it debuted precisely 160 years ago at the E.V. houghwout and company store in Manhattan on march 23,1857 (source) world book.com
  • the elevator

    on march 23,1857 he installed the first safety elevator for a passenger service in the store of E.V. Haughwout & co. on January 15, 1861 he patented an independently control steam engine for elevator use. (source) world book.com
  • An elevator

    Electric elevators came into use twords the end of the 19th century. The first one was built by the german inventor werner von siemens in 1880 black inventor,alexandor miles patented an electric elevator on October 11 1887
  • The escalator

    In 1892 Jesse W. Reno Patented The “Endless “Conveyor or elevator“ he also produced the first working escalator he called it an Inclined elevator And installed Along The old iron pier at coney island in New York City in 1896 soon afterward George A. wheeler Patented his own ideas for an escalator
  • An Escalator

    The escalator was redesigned in 1897 by Charles seeberger he created the name escalator from Scala , , The Latin word for steps, and elevator a word for something that has already been invented.....seeberger sold his escalator patent rights In 1910 to Otis elevator which bought Reno’s patent A year later
  • escalator

    the way they thought of a escalator was because George H. painted a picture of moving stairs. and then Otis company asked George to make the first escalator actually happen (source) world book.com