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Elisha Oris
Elisha Graves Otis was an American industrialist. Founder of the Otis Elevator Company. Inventor of a safety device that prevents elevators from falling if the hoisting cable fails. -
Macy’s
Was a chain of department stores. -
Christopher Sholes
Christopher Latham Sholes was an American inventor who invented the first practical typewriter. -
John D. Rockefeller
John Davison Rockefeller was an American industrialist and philanthropist. He was the founder of the Standard Oil Company. He dominated the oil industry and was the first great U.S. business trust. -
Alexander Graham Bell
He was an inventor, creator, and created the telephone. -
Ottmar Mergenthaler
Ottmar Mergenthaler was a German-born inventor who has been called a second Gutenberg because of his invention of the Linotype machine, the first device that could easily and quickly set complete lines of type for use in printing presses. -
Tomas Edison
Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices that influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. -
Social Darwinism
There is no set consept its based on. -
Joel Tiffany
He invented the friderator box car. He also founded the Tiffiny Refridgerator Company Car Company. -
George Eastman
He started the Eastman Kodak Company. -
Gustavis Swift
Gustavus Franklin Swift founded a meat-packing empire in the Midwest during the late 19th century, over which he presided until his death -
F.W. Woolworth
He founded the F. W. Woolworth Company. -
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century.