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  1. A device for lifting passengers and goods
  2. vertically, between the floors of a building.
  3. US inventor Elisha Graves Otis developed the
  4. first passenger lift, installed 1857. The
  5. invention of the lift allowed the development
  6. of the skyscraper from the 1880s.
  7.