The Otis Elevator Company was started by Elisha Otis, who invented the first safety elevator. NPR shares the story: Otis designed the first safe elevator when he needed to lift heavy building ...

Modern-day New Yorkers likely walk past the Postal Telegraph Building at 253 Broadway without a second thought. There are no plaques on the building’s exterior attesting to its significance. There don ...

Elevators, though they might not seem like it at first, are one of those inventions—like the telephone, the car, indoor plumbing, or vaccines—that are nearly miraculous in the degree to which they ...

JACKSON, MI - Two elevators built in 1929 and last refurbished in the 1960s are getting some attention in the Jackson County Tower Building. Otis Elevator Company came in with the lowest bid and will ...