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=The earliest elevator=
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Machinery to reduce work has been around as long as humans have been creating permanent dwellings, from the invention of the wheel and the first lever system to modern day high rise cranes. The study of mechanics and physics took a great leap forward during in Europe from 1500 to 1800 with the work of such renaissance inventors as Galileo and Da Vinci who made developments in rudimentary mechanics and laid the groundwork for the Industrial Age of the late18th and early 19th centuries.
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Da Vinci’s design for an early elevation system.
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==Earliest known uses of non-hydraulic elevation systems==
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One of the earliest in home elevation systems recorded was in 1744, a gift from Louis XV to the favored Duchesse de Châteauroux, to provide rapid transport from her apartments at Versailles to the royal bedchamber. This was not in place for long as the Duchesse was replaced and her follower had it removed (Gavois).
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Also popular in France, the early “italics” “tables volantes,” essentially a table sized dumbwaiter, able to be set entirely and raised into the dining room as well as removed discreetly, without the presence of servants interrupting the post-meal chatter (Gavois).
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==The Industrial Revolution==
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The name most widely known and closely associated with the invention of the modern day elevator is undoubtedly that of Elisha Otis. Founder of Otis elevator company, Elisha revolutionized elevation technology with the invention of the first passenger elevator with a fail safe safety mechanism (Peterson). After years working for as a lift technician for a bed frame company, Otis received a request to design a safe passenger elevator from a store which had recently had a horrific accident with their primitive elevator system (Otis).
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In a momentous display in 1953, Otis presented his first passenger elevator to the public at the New York Crystal Palace Exhibition, cementing his place in history as the inventor of the first useable passenger elevator (Gavois). Soon afterwards he established a factory, and was providing the first hydraulic and steam operated elevators ever to companies around New York (Otis).
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===impacts===
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The invention of the elevator would revolutionize the inner workings of the city, allowing for the sky scrapers and high rises we now characterize New York by. The sudden possibility of expansion which the passenger elevator saved Wall Street, which was rapidly out growing its downtown location from relocating, effectively making sure that New York stayed the center of the USA’s financial world (Otis). After all of the many high rise, expensive edition “rapid transport” elevators available in the Otis Company’s 1886 inventory catalogue, one page is dedicated to a little device referred to as the “portable hand hoist,” what we will come to recognize as the forbearer to the dumbwaiter.
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=When and Why=
 
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The dumbwaiter, or hand hoist, is a small platform used to transport goods from one level of a building to the next.

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Genealogy of the Elevator

Machinery to reduce work has been around as long as humans have been creating permanent dwellings, from the invention of the wheel and the first lever system to modern day high rise cranes. The study of mechanics and physics took a great leap forward during in Europe from 1500 to 1800 with the work of such renaissance inventors as Galileo and Da Vinci who made developments in rudimentary mechanics and laid the groundwork for the Industrial Age of the late18th and early 19th centuries.

Da Vinci’s design for an early elevation system.

Earliest known uses of non-hydraulic elevation systems

One of the earliest in home elevation systems recorded was in 1744, a gift from Louis XV to the favored Duchesse de Châteauroux, to provide rapid transport from her apartments at Versailles to the royal bedchamber. This was not in place for long as the Duchesse was replaced and her follower had it removed (Gavois).

Also popular in France, the early “italics” “tables volantes,” essentially a table sized dumbwaiter, able to be set entirely and raised into the dining room as well as removed discreetly, without the presence of servants interrupting the post-meal chatter (Gavois).

The Industrial Revolution

The name most widely known and closely associated with the invention of the modern day elevator is undoubtedly that of Elisha Otis. Founder of Otis elevator company, Elisha revolutionized elevation technology with the invention of the first passenger elevator with a fail safe safety mechanism (Peterson). After years working for as a lift technician for a bed frame company, Otis received a request to design a safe passenger elevator from a store which had recently had a horrific accident with their primitive elevator system (Otis).

In a momentous display in 1953, Otis presented his first passenger elevator to the public at the New York Crystal Palace Exhibition, cementing his place in history as the inventor of the first useable passenger elevator (Gavois). Soon afterwards he established a factory, and was providing the first hydraulic and steam operated elevators ever to companies around New York (Otis).

impacts

The invention of the elevator would revolutionize the inner workings of the city, allowing for the sky scrapers and high rises we now characterize New York by. The sudden possibility of expansion which the passenger elevator saved Wall Street, which was rapidly out growing its downtown location from relocating, effectively making sure that New York stayed the center of the USA’s financial world (Otis). After all of the many high rise, expensive edition “rapid transport” elevators available in the Otis Company’s 1886 inventory catalogue, one page is dedicated to a little device referred to as the “portable hand hoist,” what we will come to recognize as the forbearer to the dumbwaiter.


When and Why

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Impacts

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