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Original idea and patent held by William Kelly but bankruptsy forced him to sell his patent to Henry Bessemer who was working on a similar project. Picture:
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First to strike oil in US Picture:
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Congressman accepted shares from stockholders in return for more government contracts
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Invented the first commercially acceptable typewriter and the QWERTY keyboard that is still used today,
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Inventor of the telephone http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-greatest-inventors-in-history.php/alexander-graham-bell
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Invented the phonograph, lightbulb, kinetiscope, film studio, and the Edison moving picture machine. He also improved the telephone
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Legislation that gave the Federal Government (ICC) permission to moniter railway activities
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Factory workers at Pullman Palace Car Company walked out after negotiations of declining wages.They crippled the railway traffic nationwide. After the trains ran again they were attacked and vandalized.
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Founder of the ford motor comapny. Introduced Ford Assembly Line. Created the Car
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Supreme Court descision on limiting the number of hours a baker could work in a day or week. The court ruled that it was not a leginimate excersise of police powers,
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