Saturday, May 28, 2011

The Escalator

May 29th was the day escalators were patented by Charles Seeberger in 1897. Charles Seeberger and Otis Company made it a commercial only in 1902. Charles called it escalator by merging the words scala that meant inclined in Latin and elevator for the elevator had already been patented.


It however debuted in an amusement park, as a 25o inclined staircase that worked on steam. This was in 1895, and its creator was Jesse Reno Coney.

In 1910 Otis bought of Seeberger's patent and in 1911 Jesse Reno. They combined the two and launched their improved version in 1920.

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