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Name: Elisha Graves Otis
Birth Date: August 3, 1811
Death Date: April 8, 1861
Place of Birth: Halifax, Vermont, United States
Place of Death: Yonkers, New York, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: inventor, manufacturer

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Biography of Elisha Graves Otis
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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...
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Biography of Elisha Graves Otis
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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...


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Elisha Graves Otis Summary
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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...
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Elisha Graves Otis Produces the First Passenger Elevator with Safety Locks, Facilitating the Growth of High-Rise Buildings Summary
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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...
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Elisha Otis Information
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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...


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Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
GOING UP? Mechanic Elisha Graves Otis perfected a labor-saving device 150 years ago to make hoisting safer. He probably never imagined it would alter the architectural landscape of the world.(VARIETY)
07/27/2003: 1,046 words, approx. 4 pages
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...
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The Catholic Biblical Quarterly
Elisha and the End of Prophetism
01/01/2000: 760 words, approx. 3 pages
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....
 


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