FARMINGTON, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Otis Elevator Company, a United Technologies Corp. (NYSE:UTX) company, is launching a new residential Gen2® elevator that eliminates the need for three phase power, ...
2013 marks 160 years since Elisha Graves Otis sold his first elevator, designed specifically for safety. Sales languished, though, until he attended the 1854 world's fair in New York City and, at the ...
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 broke. It ...
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