Who enabled the development of skyscrapers by making safer elevators?

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Elisha Otis

Thomas Edison

George Westinghouse

Samuel Morse

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Elisha Otis enabled the development of skyscrapers by making safer elevators. His invention of the safety elevator in the 1850s allowed for the vertical transportation needed in tall buildings, which contributed significantly to the rise of skyscrapers.

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