Jesse reno escalator biography
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• Andre-Marie Ampere
• Michael Faraday
• Friedrich Koepe
• Georg Ohm
• Elisha Otis
• Frank A.
Perret
• Jesse Reno
• The Siemens Brothers
• Frank J. Sprague
• Nikola Tesla
• Otis Tufts
• Alessandro Volta
• James Watt
Jesse Wilford Reno, born 1861 in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, was an inventive young man who formulated his idea for an inclined moving stairway at age 16.
After graduating from Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, his engineering career took him to Colorado, then to Americus, Georgia where he is credited with building the first electric railway in the southern U.S. Reno submitted his first patent application for a "new and useful endless conveyor or elevator" in 1891.
Jesse reno escalator biography
It became effective 15 months later. The machine was built and installed at Coney Island, Brooklyn, as an amusement ride in September 1895. Moving stairways were just one arrow in the quiver, for in 1896, Reno develo