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Alexander Miles \u2013 Elevator Safety Pioneer<\/h2>\n

Perhaps those of us old enough to remember \u201cclassic\u201d cartoons recall a hazard that seemed to be always looming for our animated heroes \u2013 falling down an elevator shaft. Tom or Jerry or some other character would run towards the door of an elevator, only to find, too late, that the elevator car was missing yet the door had been left open and a plunge into the empty void awaited them. It seemed to be something that viewers in that era saw as a common hazard of life in tall buildings. But today, we don\u2019t hear of accidents like this. And much of the credit for this owes to an African-American barber name Alexander Miles<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Life of Alexander Miles<\/h3>\n

Like many minority inventors from the 19th<\/sup> and early 20th<\/sup> century, not a lot is known about Miles\u2019s life. He was born in Ohio in 1838 and spent time working as a barber in Wisconsin and Minnesota. Eventually he married a woman name Candace Dunlop and had a daughter named Grace<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Miles was clearly a man of ideas, although safety wasn\u2019t his first foray into inventing. As a barber, he first explored new methods of hair care, manufacturing various tonics, and obtaining two patents for them. His barber shop became so popular (it was referred to by a local newspaper as \u201cthe best shop \u2026 in the state of Minnesota<\/a>\u201d) that he became a wealthy man and was the first black member of the Duluth Chamber of Commerce.<\/p>\n

As his wealth grew, he built a three-story office building, which, it appears had elevators. And, while there isn\u2019t documentation on this, the story goes that the elevators almost cost him his family when little Grace either fell or nearly fell into an open elevator shaft. Whatever the impetus, Miles decided to prevent accidents like this from happening again.<\/p>\n

The Automatic Elevator Door Patent<\/h3>\n

The problem with elevator doors up to that time was that they had to be opened and closed manually. It was quite easy for a careless operator to direct the car to a different floor without remembering to close the doors before moving. So, the solution was to eliminate the human error factor by creating an automatic door opener.<\/p>\n

Although Miles\u2019 earlier work involved mostly chemistry, he put together the engineering for his automatic system which worked as follows<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cMiles attached a flexible belt to the elevator cage, and when the belt came into contact with drums positioned along the elevator shaft just above and below the floors, it allowed the elevator shaft doors to operate at the appropriate times. The elevator doors themselves were automated through a series of levers and rollers.\u201d<\/p>\n

While modern elevator doors may rely more on electric monitors and circuits, they still express his basic idea that human intervention shouldn\u2019t be needed to open or close the doors, eliminating the chance of mistake or carelessness. The patent, issued in 1887, was a major step forward in safety in both workplaces and the increasing number of high-rises being built at the start of the 20th<\/sup> century.<\/p>\n

Later Life of Alexander Miles<\/h3>\n

Miles was known as a champion of civil rights and a leader of the Black community in Duluth. Another aspect of his wide-ranging inventive mind was that in 1899 he founded an insurance company<\/a>, the United Brotherhood, to insure Black people who at the time were often denied coverage by established insurance companies. He died in 1918 at age 80 and was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2007.<\/p>\n

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Sources:<\/em><\/h3>\n

National Inventor\u2019s Hall of Fame, \u201cAlexander Miles \u2013 Improved Method for Opening and Closing Elevators,\u201d https:\/\/www.invent.org\/inductees\/alexander-miles<\/a><\/p>\n

Bellis, Mary, Thoughtco, \u201cThe Improved Elevator of Alexander Miles,\u201d https:\/\/www.thoughtco.com\/alexander-miles-improved-elevator-4071713<\/a><\/p>\n

Wikipedia, \u201cAlexander Miles,\u201d https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alexander_Miles<\/a><\/p>\n

Johnson, Lilly, HistoryHit.com, \u201c10 Facts about Inventor Alexander Miles,\u201d \u00a0https:\/\/www.historyhit.com\/facts-about-alexander-miles\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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