Otis
['əutis]
Definition
(noun.) type genus of the Otididae: European bustard.
(noun.) United States inventor who manufactured the first elevator with a safety device (1811-1861).
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Definition
(n.) A genus of birds including the bustards.
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Examples
- Otis, No. 31,128, January 15, 1861, marks the beginning of its useful applications. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Otis, an American, invented and patented in America and England in 1859 the first approach to the modern passenger elevator for hotels, warehouses, and other structures. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The first example is said to have been produced by Elisha Graves Otis, who applied steam power to an elevating machine in a little shop at Yonkers, on the banks of the Hudson, New York. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- A good example of a complete X-Ray apparatus is that in use at the Army Medical Museum at Washington, made by Otis Clapp & Son, and shown in Fig. 218. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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