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Elisha Otis
Elisha Otis was born August 3, 1811 in Halifax ,Vermont and died April 8,1861 in Yonkers, New York. he is famous for beimg the founder of Otis Elevator Company and inventor of the of a safty device that stops elevators from falling if the main cable fails -
Joel Tiffany
Joel Tiffany was born September 6, 1811 and died 1883. he was famous for being a pioneer in refrigerated railroad cars. -
Christopher Sholes
Christopher Sholes was born Febuary 14th, 1819 and died Febuary 17, 1890. He is famous for inventing the typewriter. -
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie was born November 25, 1835 in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland and died August 11, 1919 in Lenox, Massachusetts. . He is famous for leading the biggest expansion of the steel industry in the 19 century . -
Gustavis Swift
Gustavis Swift was born June 24, 1839 in Sagamore, Massachusetts and died March 29, 1903 in Lake Forest, Illinois. He is famous for the first ice cooled railroad car . -
John D. Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller was born July 8, 1839 in Richford, New York and died May 23, 1937 in The Casements, Ormond Beach, Florida. He is famous for revolutionizing the petroleum indusrtryand defining modern philanthropy . -
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison was born on February 11, 1847 in Milan, Ohio and died October 18, 1931 in West Orange, New Jersey. he is famous for inventing the phonograph, the motion picture camera ,and the light bulb. -
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell was born March 3, 1847 in Edinburg, Scotland and died in Beinn Bhreagh, Nova Scotia, Canada . He is famous for inventing the telephone . -
F.W. Woolworth
F.W. Woolworth was born April 13, 1852 in Rodman, New York and died april 8, 1919 in Glen Cove, New York. He is famous for founding F.W. Woolworth Company ( now Foot Locker). -
Ottmar Mergenthaler
Ottmar Mergenthaler was born 11 May 1854 in Hachtel Württemberg, Germany.and died 28 October 1899 in Baltimore . H is famous for inventing the Linotype machine. -
Macy’s
Macy’s was founded in 1858 in New York City , New York
