Teagle Elevator

"Otis demonstrated the safety brake by boarding his elevator at the Crystal Palace in New York and cutting the traditional hemp rope himself. The safety brake worked flawlessly, making a dramatic presentation, and establishing a legend that lives in the industry, and the popular imagination, to this day.

 

Meanwhile, on the other side of the Atlantic, in England, Frost and Stutt successfully developed a counterbalance-type, traction-method elevator called the “Teagle”, in 1853. Frost and Stutt’s Teagle and Otis’ safety brake became fundamental elevator safety features, thus ushering in the age of the safe elevator."

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