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2. The first buildings to feature elevators were hotels The first buildings to feature passenger elevators were large, urban hotels – a new kind of building in major cities like New York ...

At the same time that the transformation began in Paris, Elisha Otis introduced the world's first passenger elevator in 1854 ...

Those incidents could include things such as freeing entrapped passengers, shutting down an elevator for cleaning or putting an escalator out of service for maintenance. It represents an increase ...