Otis: Giving Rise to the Modern City by Jason Goodwin
Otis: Giving Rise to the Modern City

Jason Goodwin

Otis: Giving Rise to the Modern City

Jason Goodwin

320 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

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Without it there would be no such thing as a city skyline, or even a city as we know it. Yet Elisha Graves Otis invented the safe elevator almost by accident. He wanted simply to build a machine that would hoist a bedding factory's equipment safel...

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