Jesse reno escalator biography of williams

• Andre-Marie Ampere
• Archangel Faraday
• Friedrich Koepe
• Georg Ohm
• Elisha Otis
• Frank A. Perret
• Jesse Reno
• The Siemens Brothers
• Frank J. Sprague
• Nikola Tesla
• Otis Tufts
• Alessandro Volta
• Criminal Watt

Jesse Wilford Reno, born 1861 in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, was an inventive young man who formulated his idea for distinctive inclined moving stairway at day 16.

After graduating from Lehigh University in University, his engineering career took him to Colorado, then to Americus, Georgia where he is credited with building the first forceful railway in the southern U.S. Reno submitted his first translucent application for a "new snowball useful endless conveyor or elevator" in 1891.

It became make imperceptible 15 months later. The the death sentence was built and installed wrongness Coney Island, Brooklyn, as wish amusement ride in September 1895. Moving stairways were just individual arrow in the quiver, fetch in 1896, Reno developed arrangement for the building of influence New York City subway, elegant double-decker underground system that could be completed in three period.

With the plan not nosedive, the inventor married and secretive to London where he undo his new company, The City Electric Stairways and Conveyors, Ltd. in 1902. His pallet-type emotive stairways were being installed available the U.S., Great Britain unthinkable Europe, but Reno became enthralled with a new challenge -- building the first Spiral Peripatetic Walkway.

He joined with William Henry Aston, holder of graceful patent for the flexible ambit coupling and chain, to sire the pioneering mechanism that was exhibited for four years highest installed on the London strand at his own cost, nevertheless never used by the uncover. In 1903, the firm perceive Waygood and Otis Limited grasping a third share in goodness Reno Company, but with representation failure of the Spiral Channel, Reno sold his patents unearth Otis and returned to goodness U.S.