Charles D. Seeberger (May 14, 1857 – September 13, 1931) was an American inventor.
In 1899, he joined the
Otis Elevator Company
Otis Worldwide Corporation ( branded as the Otis Elevator Company, its former legal name) is an American company that develops, manufactures and markets elevators, escalators, moving walkways, and related equipment.
Based in Farmington, Connec ...
. The Seeberger-Otis partnership produced the first step-type
escalator
An escalator is a moving staircase which carries people between floors of a building or structure. It consists of a motor-driven chain of individually linked steps on a track which cycle on a pair of tracks which keep the step tread horizo ...
made for public use, and it was installed at the
Paris Exhibition of 1900
The Exposition Universelle of 1900, better known in English as the 1900 Paris Exposition, was a world's fair held in Paris, France, from 14 April to 12 November 1900, to celebrate the achievements of the past century and to accelerate developmen ...
, where it won first prize. Mr. Seeberger eventually sold his
patent rights
A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention."A ...
to Otis in 1910.
External links
Biography at National Inventors Hall of Fame
1857 births
1931 deaths
20th-century American inventors
Otis Worldwide
People from Oskaloosa, Iowa
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