An old engraving of a steam-driven hoisting machine used in a factory or warehouse. It is from a Victorian mechanical engineering book of the 1880s. Elisha Grave Otis demonstrated the first safety elevator (lift or hoist) at the 1854 New York Exposition in the Crystal Palace, proving elevator travel for passengers was safe. In 1863 William Miller patented an elevator safety device using a worm rack integrated into mechanism to prevent a fall happening. Here the platform (left) has these safety ratchets which instantly lock the elevator platform to the sides if a lifting rope failure occurs.
An old engraving of a steam-driven hoisting machine used in a factory or warehouse. It is from a Victorian mechanical engineering book of the 1880s. Elisha Grave Otis demonstrated the first safety elevator (lift or hoist) at the 1854 New York Exposition in the Crystal Palace, proving elevator travel for passengers was safe. In 1863 William Miller patented an elevator safety device using a worm rack integrated into mechanism to prevent a fall happening. Here the platform (left) has these safety ratchets which instantly lock the elevator platform to the sides if a lifting rope failure occurs.
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