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inventers timeline

  • Elisha Otis

    Elisha Otis
    He how demonstrated a freight elevator equipped with a safety device to prevent falling in case a supporting cable should break. This increased public confidence in devices like that. In 1853, Elisha Otis established a company for manufacturing elevators.
  • Rowland Hussey Macy’s

    Rowland Hussey Macy’s
    Macy’s was the first store to promote a woman to a executive position.7th Avenue expansion completed in 1924, Macy’s Herald Square became the World’s Largest Store, with more than 1 million square feet of store place.
  • John D. Rockefeller

    John D. Rockefeller
    John D. Rockefeller was a business man and invested in oil business and end up making his own busness.John D. Rockefeller was one of the richest busness man of his time.
  • Christopher Sholes

    Christopher Sholes
    He invented the first modern typewriter in 1866, with the financial and technical support of his business partners Samuel Soule and Carlos Glidden. Christopher Sholes was an American mechanical engineer, born on February 14, 1819 in Mooresburg, Pennsylvania, and died on February 17, 1890,he was 71 years old when he died.
  • Alexander Graham Bell

    Alexander Graham Bell
    In 1876 when he was 29, Alexander Graham Bell invented his telephone invention.Alexander Graham Bell had very great success with his telephone invention.
  • Joel Tiffany

    Joel Tiffany
    The Tiffany Refrigerator Car Company was born in 1877 in Chicago, Illinois, the tiffany tran car was a out of the patented design of Joel Tiffany.
  • F.W. Woolworth

    F.W. Woolworth
    F.W woolworth was one of the most sucessful pioneers, setting tends most store follow that idea today.
  • Thomas Edison

    Thomas Edison
    Thomas Edison was a inventer and a business man he has many inventions and patents. He has inventtions we still use today and we still basic off to make newer ones or updated porducts.
  • Gustavis Swift

    Gustavis Swift
    gustasvis swift made ice-cooled railroad car for th meat-packing industry. which made the meat ceaper and more convent to get/buy.
  • Social Darwinism

    Social Darwinism
    Social Darwinism is a theory that group have about laws of natural as plants and animals.most discredited by Herbert Spencer.
  • Ottmar Mergenthaler

    Ottmar Mergenthaler
    He was a German-born inventer, His invention was the first to make printing quickly and easy it was called the Linotype machine.
  • George Eastman

    George Eastman
    entrepreneur who founded the Eastman Kodak Company and it was popular to use and roll flim.George Eastman wanted to make photography and easy and make it available to everyone, not just the photographers but for the common day people.
  • Andrew Carnegie

    Andrew Carnegie
    Mr.Carnegie was the founder of the Carnegie Steel Company,which later was sold, which was loacated in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania.