Description
Reno, a graduate of Lehigh University, produced the first working escalator ( called the "inclined elevator" ) and installed it alongside the Old Iron Pier at Coney Island, New York City in 1896 Around May 1895, Charles Seeberger began drawings on a form of escalator similar to those patented by Wheeler in 1892. Original edition from my own archives Source : "Gartenlaube" 1897