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Elisha Otis was the founder of the elevator, and the inventor of a safety system for if the cable cord on the elevator were to break.
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Macy's is a mid-range to upscale chain of department stores owned by America.
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Christopher Sholes invented the typewriter.
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John D. Rockefeller was the founder of the Standard Oil company.
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Social Darwinism is the study of human society.
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Andrew Carnegie led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry.
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Alexander Grahm Bell invented the first practical telephone.
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Joel Tiffany patents the refrigerator car.
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F.W. Woolworth was the founder of the F.W. Woolworth company.
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Thomas Edison invented the first lightbulb.
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Ottmar Mergenthaler was the inventor of the Linotype machine.
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Gustavis Swift founded a meat-packing empire in the midwest.
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George Eastman founded the Eastman Kodak company, and invented rolled photography film including the Kodak camera that could use it.