Anton Freissler, aka Anton Freißler (13 March 1838, in
Kujavy – 29 February 1916, in
Hinterbrühl
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) invented and developed a number of
elevators
An elevator or lift is a cable-assisted, hydraulic cylinder-assisted, or roller-track assisted machine that vertically transports people or freight between floors, levels, or decks of a building, vessel, or other structure. They a ...
including
paternosters
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.
Biography
upleft, Oldest Paternoster in Austria by Freissler, installed in 1911
Freissler was born in
Kujavy in northern Moravia, which was a part of Austrian empire. Freissler developed paternosters and other elevators, which were sold very successfully throughout the empire and abroad. One of the oldest paternosters, installed in 1911, is still in use in the House of Industry in Vienna.
Freissler was also issued an
imperial warrant
Royal warrants of appointment have been issued for centuries to tradespeople who supply goods or services to a royal court or certain royal personages. The royal warrant enables the supplier to advertise the fact that they supply to the issuer of ...
as a Purveyor to the Imperial and Royal Court.
The company existed until the 1970s until it was incorporated into
Otis Austria.
See also
*
List of elevator manufacturers
This is a list of companies that manufacture elevators.
Current elevator manufacturers
* Aichi small-elevator manufacturing corporation
* Doppler
* Fujitec
* Hitachi
* Hyundai Elevator
* Kone
* Mitsubishi Electric
* Otis Elevator Compan ...
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1838 births
1916 deaths
People from Nový Jičín District
People from the Margraviate of Moravia
Moravian-German people
Austrian people of Moravian-German descent
19th-century Austrian people
20th-century Austrian people
Austrian businesspeople
Manufacturing companies of Austria
Elevator manufacturers
Purveyors to the Imperial and Royal Court
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