Sentence examples for first elevator from inspiring English sources

Three years later, Abraham Lincoln, campaigning for the Presidency, enjoyed his first elevator ride at Cooper Union.

The next year he resigned from his job and set up a small elevator shop in Yonkers, selling his first elevator machine on September 20 , 1853

In 1854, when the engineer Elisha Otis demonstrated the first elevator safety brake at the Crystal Palace Exposition in New York City, the audience cheered.

There he designed and installed what he called the "safety hoist," the first elevator equipped with an automatic safety device to prevent it from falling if the lifting chain or rope broke.

It is no shock to learn that Louis XV of France, rumored at the time of his reign to bathe in the blood of virgins and to have sired ninety illegitimate children, invented the first elevator, then called a "flying chair," to heave him to his mistresses' chambers on the second floor of his apartment.

Otis sold his first three elevators for $300 apiece and went on to the 1854 exposition at the Crystal Palace in Manhattan, where he demonstrated "the first elevator wherein provision was made for stopping the fall of the car in the contingency of the breaking of the hoisting cables".

Otis, the world's largest elevator company, brought the first elevators to Russia: in 1893, Czar Alexander III ordered several for the Winter Palace in St . Petersburg

But the need for the lunchroom lost its urgency in 1932, when the first elevators were installed.

The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum has a long tradition of high-tech innovation: when the building was completed, in 1902, as a residence for Andrew Carnegie, it had one of the city's first elevators.

Doubles from $87 room only It's no small undertaking to reinvent a hotel as iconic as the 1930s-era Indian Creek Hotel, an art-deco building that boasted one of the city's first elevators.

He left the company to personally produce the second game, which built on ideas he conceived while working on his first: elevators and towers.