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Joel Tiffany
Joel Tiffany invented the refirgertator train car. The original refirgerator box car was just meat placed directly in boxes filled with ice. Which then caused discoloation and affected the taste of the meat. -
Elisha Otis
Elisha had created a divice that would help elevators not fall if the hoisting cable were to fail. He is also the founder of the Otis Elevator Company. -
Christopher Sholes
Christopher Latham Sholes was an American inventor who invented the first practical typewriter and the QWERTY keyboard still in use today. He was also a newspaper publisher and Wisconsin politician. -
Gustavis Swift
Founded a meat-packing empire in the Midwest during the late 19th century over which he presided untill his death. He is credited with the development of the first practical ice-cooled railroad car which allowed his company to ship dressed meats to all parts of the country and even abroad, which ushered in the "era of cheap beef." -
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century. He was also one of the highest profile philanthropists of his era; his 1889 article proclaiming "The Gospel of Wealth" called on the rich to use their wealth to improve society, and stimulated wave after wave of philanthropy. -
Macy’s
Founded in New York City in 1858. As of January 2013 Macy's has 798 store location in the United States. The people who founded Macy's are Isidor Straus and Rowland Hussey Macy. THe original Macy's store is located in downtown Haverhill, Massachusetts. -
Social Darwinism
Social Darwinism is not any single defined concept,but various ideologies that seek to apply biological concepts associated with Darwinism or other evolutionary theories to sociology, economics and politics, often with the assumption that conflict between groups in society leads to social progress as superior groups outcompete inferior ones. -
F.W. Woolworth
Founder of F.W. Woolworth Company. Now know as The Foot Locker. His first stores failed. His second store was first a five cent store later to become a ten cent store. Later to have at least 586 stores in 1911. In 1913 he built the Woolworth building in New York at a cost of 13.5 million dollars payed for in cash. At the time it was the tallestr building in the world. It stood 792 feet tall. -
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.Regarded as the greatest advance in printing since the development of moveable type 400 years earlier. -
George Eastman
George Eastman was an American innovator and entrepreneur who founded the Eastman Kodak Company and popularized the use of roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream.In the last few years of his life Eastman suffered with chronic pain and reduced functionality due to a spine illness. On March 14, 1932 Eastman shot himself in the heart, leaving a note which read, "To my friends: my work is done. Why wait?" -
Thomas Edison
Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. -
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell was an eminent scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone.Many other inventions marked Bell's later life, including groundbreaking work in optical telecommunications, hydrofoils and aeronautics.