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 ...

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 ...

Dallas, TX – When I say the name Otis, what do you think of? There's Redding and Rush if you're music fans, but for the majority of us who live or work above a second floor, most likely Otis is a name ...

Otis elevators are in the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the world’s tallest building at 2,722 ft. Image © Emaar properties. But it was Otis' elevator that would allow for ...

Otis Elevator rolled out its newest application of internet technology Tuesday as it turns to digital operations to reduce elevator maintenance and repairs that are costly to customers and ...

Customers can carefully choose the level, cost and pace of elevator modernisation and plan in phases Otis solutions align with the latest European safety standards, and enhance reliability and ...

__1857: __Attention shoppers: The first commercial elevator goes safely up and down in a New York City department store. Like air conditioning and public transportation, elevators are supposed to make ...

When Otis Elevator Co. spins out from United Technologies in 2020 (probably happening sometime in April 2020), it will immediately catapult into the Fortune 500 with a valuation of $29 billion, $13 ...

Otis Elevator Company, a division of Hartford-based United Technologies Corp., tests and develops elevator components in Bristol at the company’s 117-meter test tower. The facility has a quality ...

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 ...