Comment Re:Work the way down to no license (Score 1) 301
Early elevators weren't exactly safe. That didn't stop people from using them.
Yes it did. The thing that made elevators a success was a safety demonstration at the 1854 worlds fair. The guy who invented the safety break for the elevator Elisha Otis became the biggest maker of elevators (which is why you see the name Otis in many elevators even today). The maker who won was not the guy who first made a elevator, it was the first guy who could prove an elevator was safe.