1. Written and Illustrated by: Carter Williams

2. The Elevator 1853. An Elevator transports people and things. It’s a box that moves up and down between levels of buildings. Motors, cables, and gears power them. This invention kept people from having to use stairs. Elisha Graves Otis invented the elevator in 1853 in New York. It was a sweet invention because it could help handicap people and older folks who find it difficult to have to use or climb stairs.

3. Elisha Graves Otis 8/d/1811 - 4/8/1861 My inventor name is Elisha Graves Otis he invented the elevator brake. He was born on 8-3-1811 and he died on 4-8-1861 and he was born at Haifax, Vermont. He was the youngest of six kids and his wife died when they had two kids. His job was master maniac train breaker then he started to design elevator brakes. Elisha Graves Otis moved to Albany and was in worlds fair and he road up an elevator and cut the wire and he fell and the brake stopped it

4. Thank you letter March 5,2012, Linden Elementary School 700 Robertsville Rd. Oak Ridge, TN 37830 Dear Elisha Graves Otis I wanted to write you a thank you note for inventing the elevator brake. It saved many peoples lives, and I like riding in them. It keeps people from crashing in an elevator. Elevators help handicap people from having to use the stairs. They like the elevator because it is not as much going up the stairs. Your friend, Carter Williams