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The safety elevator

1850s onward · United States

Documentary view of The safety elevator. — Elisha Otis demo of his free-fall prevention mechanism, New York Crystal Palace, 1854.Unknown authorUnknown author · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · Source record

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