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Otis demonstrates the elevator safety brake

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Elisha Otis demonstrates his safety device publicly at the New York Crystal Palace exhibition, standing on a loaded hoist platform and having the rope cut. The brake grips the guide rails and the platform holds. The demonstration is theatre, and it is also the precondition for the tall building: without a hoist people will trust, upper floors stay cheap and nobody builds them.

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  1. Story
  2. Elisha Otis demonstrates his safety device publicly at the New York Crystal Palace exhibition, standing on a loaded hoist platform and having the rope cut. The brake grips the guide rails and the platform holds. The demonstration is theatre, and it is also the precondition for the tall building: without a hoist people will trust, upper floors stay cheap and nobody builds them.
  3. Knowledge
  4. The safety elevator
  5. Otis demonstrates the elevator safety brake
  6. Connections
  7. The safety elevator
  8. Home Insurance Building, Chicago
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  10. Otis demonstrates the elevator safety brake
  11. Evidence
  12. Jenney's Home Insurance Building (1885) is conventionally identified as the first tall building carried on a metal skeleton frame, and the claim is qualified in the scholarly literature. Supports the frame, elevator and Chicago School records. V55 verification basis: the site was not reachable in this session; entries are cited by title from established record.
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