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Great inventions in history

  • Elisha Otis

    Elisha Otis
    Elisha OtisElisha Otis created the first elevator break. That has become a well know invention today.
  • Andrew Carnegie

    Andrew Carnegie
    He became rich in the steel industry. Then went on to become a divison superintendent of the Pennsylvania railroad.
  • John D. Rockefeller

    John D. Rockefeller
    he founded the standard oil company. Also he become very wealthy and became a big philanthropist.
  • Gustavis Swift

    Gustavis Swift
    He founded the meat packaging firm called swift and company. His invention has helped us keep our meat safe and clean today.
  • Christopher Sholes

    Christopher Sholes
    He invented the frist practical type writer. He also introduced a keyboad layout that is familiar today.
  • Alexander Graham Bell

    Alexander Graham Bell
    He created the frist telephone. Which was the frist building block to our modernized way of comunication today.
  • Joel Tiffany

    Joel Tiffany
    He created the refrigerator car company. That helped transport meats and other refrigerated items with out spoiling.
  • Thomas Edison

    Thomas Edison
    He invented the lightbulb.That modernized our societity today.
  • F.W. Woolworth

    F.W. Woolworth
    He opened his own store called F.W Woolworth. He become a millionair after opening many of his stores around the world.
  • Ottmar Mergenthaler

    Ottmar Mergenthaler
    He created the linotype composing machine. That modernized our way of printing today.
  • George Eastman

    George Eastman
    He invented the frist kodak cameria. It was a box cameria with 100 exposures.
  • Social Darwinism by Herbert Spencer

    Social Darwinism by Herbert Spencer
    Social Darwinism is a theory that the stronger states will flourish in society,and the weak will not survive. Also they will be able to die.
  • Isidor Straus and Rowland Hussey Macy

    Isidor Straus and Rowland Hussey Macy
    These two men founded the store macy's. Which is now a world wide department store.