Otis Elevator Co. has come a long way from being an elevator pioneer in the 1850s. Today, the company’s elevators and escalators carry two billion people daily, and technology is driving sales and ...

The president of Otis elevator has resigned, parent company United Technologies Corp. said Thursday. Philippe Delpech, who held the top job since 2015, is taking “another opportunity” in Europe, UTC ...

Otis Elevator faces technician shortages just months after rolling out a service platform linking the workers with elevator mechanics. The marquee subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. is responding ...

BETHEL, Maine — The 8-year-old boy’s life came to an end with the push of an elevator button. While on vacation with his family last year, Tucker Smith stepped into the space between the outer ...

Happy 160th birthday, Otis Elevator Company! Thanks for making modern cities possible. Here are the 9 coolest Otis elevator inventions from the Popular Science archive. By Rose Pastore Published Apr 4 ...

Otis Elevator Korea is under government investigation over the death of a 27-year-old worker who fell 20 meters while repairing an elevator alone at an apartment building in Seoul last Friday. The ...

On Sept. 20, 1853, Elisha Graves Otis sold his first “hoist machine,” or elevator, featuring an automatic safety brake he had patented. His seemingly simple invention was designed to stop a platform ...

Many technological advancements have changed the way we design in the past 150 years, but perhaps none has had a greater impact than the invention of the passenger elevator. Prior to Elisha Otis’ ...