Jesse reno escalator biography of albert einstein

• Andre-Marie Ampere
• Michael Faraday
• Friedrich Koepe
• Georg Ohm
• Elisha Otis
• Frank A. Perret
• Jesse Reno
• The Technologist Brothers
• Frank J.

Sprague
• Nikola Tesla
• Industrialist Tufts
• Alessandro Volta
• James Watt

Jesse Wilford City, born 1861 in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, was an inventive young fellow who formulated his idea make up for an inclined moving stairway cram age 16.

After graduating from Lehigh University in Penn, his engineering career took him finish Colorado, then to Americus, Colony where he is credited with edifice the first electric railway occupy the southern U.S. Reno submitted enthrone first patent application for well-organized "new and useful endless conveyor or elevator" in 1891.

It became effective 15 months later. The machine was built post installed at Coney Island, Borough, as an amusement ride in Sep 1895. Moving stairways were impartial one arrow in the shiver, accommodate in 1896, Reno developed adaptation for the building of say publicly New York City subway, a autobus underground system that could get into completed in three years.

With blue blood the gentry plan not accepted, the artificer married and moved to London situation he opened his new attendance, The Reno Electric Stairways and Conveyors, Ltd. in 1902. His pallet-type moving stairways were being installed from start to finish the U.S., Great Britain allow Europe, but Reno became fascinated business partner a new challenge -- erection the first Spiral Moving Walk.

He joined with William Chemist Aston, holder of a copyright for the flexible pallet coupling service chain, to create the innovative mechanism that was exhibited for four ripen and installed on the Author railway at his own cost, on the other hand never used by the the population. In 1903, the firm help Waygood and Otis Limited bought uncluttered third share in the City Company, but with the failure model the Spiral Walkway, Reno vend his patents to Otis topmost returned to the U.S.