Here's your escalator to a new day:
The escalator began as an amusement and not as a practical transport. The first patent relating to an escalator-like machine was granted in 1859 to a Massachusetts man for a steam driven unit. In 1892, Jesse Reno patented his moving stairs or inclined elevator as he called it. In 1895, Jesse Reno created a new novelty ride at Coney Island from his patented design, a moving stairway that elevated passengers on a conveyor belt at a 25 degree angle.
The escalator as we know it was later re-designed by Charles Seeberger in 1897, who created the name ‘escalator’ from the word ‘scala’, which is Latin for steps and the word ‘elevator’, which had already been invented.
Charles Seeberger, together with the Otis Elevator Company produced the first commercial escalator in 1899 at the Otis factory in Yonkers, N.Y. The Seeberger-Otis wooden escalator won first prize at the Paris 1900 Exposition Universelle in France. Jesse Reno's Coney Island ride success briefly made Jesse Reno into “the” escalator designer and he founded the Reno Electric Stairways and Conveyors company in 1902.
Charles Seeberger sold his patent rights for the escalator to the Otis Elevator Company in 1910, who also bought Jesse Reno's escalator patent in 1911. Otis then came to dominate escalator production, and combined and improved the various designs of escalators.
Today, we have become totally dependent on the escalator ...
but still find ways to enjoy them.
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LOL ... Thanks, OESY.
Are you sure that escalator isn’t the escalator to hell? You wouldn’t get me on it. ;^ )
The YouTube video is funnnny.
Happy Escalator Day!!