TUC-4 Bristol Test Tower Traditional Cache

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GeoCrater: I am regretfully archiving this cache since there's been no response from nor action by the cache owner within the time frame requested in the last reviewer note.

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Hidden : 6/23/2007
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
3 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

In the distance you can see a lone skyscraper - the Bristol Test Tower. Park at N41 37.662, W072 48.190.

It's owned by the Otis Elevator Company (a division of United Technologies - UTC). If you were to step inside the Research Center, here's what you would see: * 14 different hoistways displaying various elevator designs. * A 25-foot high NextStep™ escalator, Otis' newest escalator design. * Numerous quality testing chambers, simulating environments with extreme salt, dust, heat, cold, humidity, electrical stress and accelerated stress testing. * An electromagnetic interference testing room. Elisha Graves Otis (August 3, 1811 — April 7, 1861) invented a safety device in 1852 in Yonkers, New York that prevented elevators from falling if the hoisting cable broke. Otis was born near Halifax, Vermont. He moved away from home at the age of 19. He then moved to Troy, New York and lived there for 5 years. At New York’s Crystal Palace, Elisha Otis amazed the crowd when he ordered an axeman to cut the only rope suspending the platform on which he was standing. The platform dropped a few inches' , but then came to a stop. His new safety brake stopped the platform from crashing to the ground and revolutionized the industry. Otis sold his first safe elevators in 1853. The first passenger elevator was installed by him in New York in 1857. After Otis' death in 1861, his sons, Charles and Norton, built on his heritage, creating Otis Brothers & Co. in 1867. Otis' invention increased public confidence in elevators, which was instrumental in the rise of skyscrapers. The company he founded grew to become Otis Elevator Company, the largest elevator company in the world. Statistically, Otis is the world's most popular transportation company[1]. It is estimated that the equivalent of the world's population travel in Otis elevators, escalators and moving walkways every three days. According to United Technologies, Otis elevators carry the equivalent of the world's population every nine days. Otis also operates the world’s tallest elevator test tower in Shibayama, Japan. This test tower stands 154 meters (505 ft) above ground and 27 meters (89 ft) below ground.

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