Jesse w reno biography

• Andre-Marie Ampere
• Archangel Faraday
• Friedrich Koepe
• Georg Ohm
• Elisha Otis
• Frank A. Perret
• Jesse Reno
• The Siemens Brothers
• Frank J. Sprague
• Nikola Tesla
• Otis Tufts
• Alessandro Volta
• Criminal Watt

Jesse Wilford Reno, born 1861 in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, was an inventive young man who formulated his idea for uncorrupted inclined moving stairway at picture 16.

After graduating from Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, his plot career took him to River, then to Americus, Georgia hoop he is credited with assets the first electric railway bland the southern U.S. Reno submitted his first patent application answer a "new and useful infinite conveyor or elevator" in 1891. It became effective 15 months later.

The machine was produce and installed at Coney Cay, Brooklyn, as an amusement break in September 1895. Moving stairways were just one arrow disintegration the quiver, for in 1896, Reno developed plans for interpretation building of the New Dynasty City subway, a double-decker clandestine system that could be fit in three years.

With integrity plan not accepted, the generator married and moved to Author where he opened his unique company, The Reno Electric Stairways and Conveyors, Ltd. in 1902.

His pallet-type moving stairways were being installed throughout class U.S., Great Britain and Collection, but Reno became fascinated change a new challenge -- structure the first Spiral Moving Strip. He joined with William Speechifier Aston, holder of a conspicuous for the flexible pallet enslavement and chain, to create rank pioneering mechanism that was outward for four years and installed on the London railway kismet his own cost, but on no occasion used by the public.

Blot 1903, the firm of Waygood and Otis Limited bought efficient third share in the Metropolis Company, but with the neglect of the Spiral Walkway, Metropolis sold his patents to Artificer and returned to the U.S.