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ELISHA GRAVES OTIS
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• ELISHA GRAVES OTIS (noun)
The noun ELISHA GRAVES OTIS has 1 sense:
1. United States inventor who manufactured the first elevator with a safety device (1811-1861)
Familiarity information: ELISHA GRAVES OTIS used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
United States inventor who manufactured the first elevator with a safety device (1811-1861)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Elisha Graves Otis; Otis
Instance hypernyms:
industrialist (someone who manages or has significant financial interest in an industrial enterprise)
artificer; discoverer; inventor (someone who is the first to think of or make something)
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