OTIS POLSKA history

By the end of 1856 he had sold more than 40 elevators, all for use in carrying freight.

It seems the stunt worked - in 1857 the first Otis passenger elevator was installed at 488 Broadway.

Understand/appreciate the expansion of the Otis company after the death of E.G. Otis in 1861 by his two sons into a multi-million dollar industrial concern;

By 1872 the company had built more than 2,000 steam-powered elevators and taken in more than a million dollars.

In 1878 Otis introduced a faster, more economical hydraulic elevator.

The first electric elevator was built by the German inventor Wener Von Siemens in 1880.

In 1887, an electric elevator with automatic doors that would close off the elevator shaft was patented.

In 1889, the first commercially successful electric elevator was installed.

In 1892, the earliest working type of escalator was patented by Jesse W. Reno.

In 1897 first commercial moving staircases escalator was made by Charles Seeberger in cooperation with the Otis Elevator Company.

The Otis Elevator Co. was formed in 1898 from the $11 million merger of Otis Brothers & Co. and 14 other elevator companies.

Otis started buying established firms overseas as early as 1902.

In 1903-04 Otis introduced the gearless-traction electric elevator, a design that remains essentially unchanged today.

In 1915 the company introduced a self-leveling device that allowed the elevator platform to stop exactly at floor level.

To offset slow sales during recessions, Otis began selling contracts to service and maintain its installations in 1922.

A push-button system introduced in 1924 made stops and speed automatic rather than at the option of the operator.

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Net income reached nearly $8.4 million by 1929 before dipping sharply with the advent of the Great Depression.

In 1948 Otis introduced the improved Autotronic system for commercial installations.

Toward the end of 1955 Otis began producing automatic bowling pinsetters.

In 1956 it did some $20 million worth of conversion work from manual to automatic.

In 1968, a year after Otis installed 255 elevators and 71 escalators in New York City's newly completed World Trade Center, the company held nearly half the United States elevator market.

In 1969 the company established the Diversified Systems Division to apply elevator and escalator technology to automated automobile-parking, container-handling, and warehouse systems.

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Net sales reached a record $1.1 billion in 1974--more than half of which was generated overseas--and net income a record $43.5 million.

United Technologies Purchases Otis in 1975

In 1976 the company revealed to a federal agency that it estimated it had made between $5 million and $6 million in improper payments during the past five years, some of them to foreign government officials and employees.

The Elevonic 401, introduced in 1981, was the first control system with synthesized speech, information display, and security systems.

In 1985 an Otis people-mover system was introduced to connect Harbour Island and downtown Tampa, Florida.

The Elevonic 411 system, introduced in 1990 for gearless elevators, was capable of modifying its software-based dispatching rules for more responsive elevator service.

In 1984, when Otis accounted for 20,000 of the 100,000 elevators sold in the world each year, the company signed a joint venture to build elevators in China; a decade later, it had three Chinese joint venture plants. It opened its first major manufacturing plant in Southeast Asia--in Malaysia--in 1993.

The first Otis elevator system incorporating fuzzy logic modules was installed at the Hyatt Osaka Regency Hotel in Osaka, Japan, which opened in 1994.

In what at first glance might seem an incongruous marriage for a traditional manufacturer, Otis turned to the Internet in 1999.