Autumn's Timeline.

By AutumnMarlene

  • Elisha Otis

    In 1853, American inventor Elisha Otis demonstrated a freight elevator equipped with a safety device to prevent falling in case a supporting cable should break. In 1853, Elisha Otis established a company for manufacturing elevators and patented (1861) a steam elevator.

  • John D. Rockefeller

    He finally made his bid in 1863, by creating a refining business with Maurice B. Clark and other partners. In 1870, Rockefeller teamed with his brother William, Henry M. Flagler, and Samuel Andrews to establish the Standard Oil Company.

  • Christopher Sholes

    He invented the first practical modern typewriter in 1866.

  • Andrew Carnegie

    In the early 1870s, he entered the steel business, and over the next two decades became a dominant force in the industry.

  • Alexander Graham Bell

    In 1876, at the age of 29, Alexander Graham Bell invented his telephone.

  • F.W. Woolworth

    He established the great chain of "five-and-ten-cent" stores which bear his name.

  • Joel Tiffany

    Tiffany is often credited with being a pioneer in the design of refrigerated railroad cars.

  • Thomas Edison

    The first great invention developed by Edison in Menlo Park was the tin foil phonograph. August 12, 1877.
    Thomas Edison's greatest challenge was the development of a practical incandescent, electric light. December 1879.
    Thomas Edison's interest in motion pictures began before 1888,

  • Gustavis Swift

    Gustavus Swift invented the refrigerated railroad car in the 1880s. The railroad car was important because before the 1880s, you could not ship meat to places because it would spoil fast but the refrigerated railroad car keeps meat fresh so it can be shipped to other places. Swift set up a meat packing industry in Chicago, where animals were slaughtered and carved into slabs of beef.

  • Ottmar Mergenthaler

    In 1886 he introduced the linotype line casting machine, so named because it set an entire line of type at a time.

  • George Eastman

    In 1880, he opened the Eastman Dry Plate and Film Company. His first camera, the Kodak, was sold in 1888 and consisted of a box camera with 100 exposures.

  • Macy’s

    Clothing store,

  • Social Darwinism

    The idea that humans, like animals and plants, compete in a struggle for existence in which natural selection results in "survival of the fittest."