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Christopher Sholes invented the practical typewriter and the QWERTY keyboard.
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Isidor Straus and Rowland Hussey Macy founded the company/ store Macy's.
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Elisha Otis founded the Otis Elevator Company with his invention of the elevator safety device.
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Andrew Carnegie was an industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century.
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Social Darwinism is not any single well defined concept, but many ideas that seek to apply biological concepts associated with Darwinism or other evolutionary theories.
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John D. Rockefeller was an American industrialist and philanthropist. He was the founder of the Standard Oil Company
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Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone
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Joel Tiffany invented the design for the Tiffany Refrigerator Car Company.
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Thomas Edison was an American inventor and businessman. He invented the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb.
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Ottmar Mergenthaler invented the Linotype machine, the first device that could easily and quickly set complete lines of type for use in printing presses.
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George Eastman founded Eastman Kodak Company
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Gustavus Swift founded a meat-packing empire in the Midwest during the late 19th century. 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
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F.W. Woolworth founded F.W. Woolworth Company. An operator of discount stores that priced merchandise at five and ten cents