Inventions Timeline

  • Elisha Otis

    Elsiha Otiis was the founder of the Otis Elevator Company. He also was an inventer of a safety device that helps elevators from not falling if the cables fail.
  • Social Darwinism

    Social Darwinism is a theory that groups of people are subjected to the same darwinian laws. The laws are natural selection of plants and animals. Social Darwinism was supported by Herbert Spencer
  • Christopher Sholes

    Christopher invented the typewriter. He also invented the first QWERTY keyboard. The QWERTY keyboard is still in use today.
  • John D. Rockefeller

    John D. Rockefeller was the founder of the Standard Oil Company.It did very good in the oil industry. It was the first good U.S business.
  • Andrew Carnegie

    Andrew Carnegie founded in a steel industry. He made a fortune from this industry.
  • Joel Tiffany

    Joel Tiffany invented the Refrigerator car company. This inevention was important because it helped persevre food and keep it cold.
  • Alexander Graham Bell

    Alexander Graham Bell invented the first practical telephone. This invention was important because it helped with communication from people to people.
  • Thomas Edison

    Thomas Jefferson invented the Phonograph. This was a useful invention because people were able to record sounds. People were able to playback sounds without having to remember them all by memory.
  • Ottmar Mergenthaler

    Ottmar Invented the Linotype machine. This machine ty[ped up magazines and newspapers. It was used for printing.
  • George Eastman

    George eastman founded the Eastman Kodak Company. Or known as the Kodak Camera. This was useful to people becasue it helped simplify photography.
  • Gustavus Swift

    Gustatvus Sswift founded in a meat packing empire. One of the first to use Henry Fords assembly lines.
  • F.W. Woolworth

    F.W Woolworth invented Department stores. department stores are important now and ack then because people were able to buy goods. Also with all the department stores it helped get people jobs.
  • Macy's

    They have been selling goods to people for about 81 years. There were two founders of macys stores. One was Isidor straus and the other one was Rowland Hussey Macy.