Elisha Graves Otis (August 3 1811 – April 8 1861) was an American industrialist founder of the Otis Elevator Company and inventor of a safety device that prevents elevators from falling if the hoisting cable fails. He worked on this device while living in Yonkers New York in 1852 and had a finished product in 1854.
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