The American manufacturer and inventor Elisha Graves Otis (1811-1861) was one of the inventors of the modern elevator and founded a company for their manufacture. Elisha Otis was born near Halifax, Vermont, where his father was for many years a justice...

Elisha Otis, a descendant of revolutionary patriot James Otis (1725-1783), was born near Halifax, Vermont. He left his family's successful farm at the age of nineteen to pursue a number of trades, including carpentry in Troy, New York, and...

1811-1861 Designer of the safety hoist elevators. Born in Halifax, Vermont, in 1811, Elisha Graves Otis was a hard-working New Englander with exceptional talents in improving old machines and inventing new ones. Working as a master mechanic in 1852 for...

A descendent of James Otis, a British immigrant who arrived in North America in the seventeenth century, Elisha Graves Otis was born in 1811. He grew up in Vermont before moving to the state of New York to work as a master mechanic. Working for the...

Otis was born near Halifax, Vermont.[1] He moved away from home at the age of 19, eventually settling in Troy, New York, where he lived for 5 years.[2] At the New York Crystal Palace, Elisha Otis amazed a crowd when he ordered the only rope holding the...

Byline: Heron Marquez Estrada; Staff Writer Otis, my man. That famous line from the movie "Animal House" can only begin to express the debt of gratitude the world owes to Elisha Graves Otis who, 150 years ago, introduced an invention that...

WESLEY J. BERGEN, Elisha and the End of Prophetism (JSOTSup 286; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999). Pp. 200. L37.50, $60. Although this was originally a dissertation at the Toronto School of Theology (with Brian Peckham as guide), it does not sound like one....