Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations (1853) - Definition

Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations was held in 1853 in New York City, in the wake of the highly successful 1851 Great Exhibition in London. Today, the expo is largely remembered as the place where Elisha Otis demonstrated an elevator equipped with a device called a safety, which would kick in if the hoisting rope broke. This addressed a major public concern regarding the safety of elevators. Three years later, Otis installed the first passenger elevator in the United States in a New York City store.