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Elisha Otis

1811 - 1861

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Elisha Graves Otis (August 3, 1811 – April 8, 1861) was an American industrialist and founder of the Otis Elevator Company. In 1853, he invented a safety device that prevents elevators from falling if the hoisting cable fails. On March 23, 1857, he installed the first safety elevator for passenger service in the store of E.V. Haughwout & Co. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elisha Otis has received more than 865,783 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Elisha Otis is the 95th most popular inventor (down from 93rd in 2019), the 1,124th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,047th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular American Inventor.

Elisha Otis invented the elevator in 1853.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.03

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Elisha Otis ranks 95 out of 426. Before him are William Webb Ellis, Wolfgang von Kempelen, Henri Coandă, Étienne-Jules Marey, André-Jacques Garnerin, and Daniel Swarovski. After him are Franz Reichelt, Alphonse Bertillon, Johann Maria Farina, Leo Fender, Momofuku Ando, and Robert Noyce.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1811, Elisha Otis ranks 15. Before him are Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, William Makepeace Thackeray, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Vissarion Belinsky, Louis Blanc, and François Achille Bazaine. After him are Ambroise Thomas, Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern, Zeng Guofan, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Jón Sigurðsson, and Aristide Cavaillé-Coll. Among people deceased in 1861, Elisha Otis ranks 15. Before him are Pedro V of Portugal, Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Pavel Jozef Šafárik, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Adam Jerzy Czartoryski, and Eugène Scribe. After him are Ranavalona I, Lars Levi Laestadius, Henri Murger, Teréz Brunszvik, Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska, and Infante Carlos, Count of Montemolin.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Elisha Otis ranks 1,124 out of 20,380. Before him are Suzi Quatro (1950), James Gandolfini (1961), Lawrence Klein (1920), Charlie Munger (1924), Richard F. Heck (1931), and David Scott (1932). After him are Jim Belushi (1954), Donna Leon (1942), Stanley Tucci (1960), James M. Buchanan (1919), Richard S. Castellano (1933), and Ike Turner (1931).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Elisha Otis ranks 23. Before him are John Browning (1855), John Deere (1804), Josephine Cochrane (1839), Les Paul (1915), George Eastman (1854), and Ray Tomlinson (1941). After him are Leo Fender (1909), Robert Noyce (1927), Jacque Fresco (1916), Lee de Forest (1873), Josiah Warren (1798), and Hiram Maxim (1840).

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