Social Studies Time line

  • Elisha Otis

    Elisha Otis created the brakes on elevators. this helped with when constrution workers needed to stop at a certain point the elevator would stay in place
  • Christopher Shols

    Christopher Sholes created the type writter. which in for this creation people where able to type out papers faster the writting them out.
  • Macy's

    Macy's
    The popular store known as Macy's was founded in the year 1858.
    The founders were Isidor Straus, Rowland Hussey Macy. This store was very popluar and it helped alot cause people could bye stylish clothing.
  • Gustavis Swift

    Gustavis Swift
    Mr Swift created the ice box railroad car. this would help alot with transporting meat across the country
  • Alexander Graham Bell

    Alexander Graham Bell
    Alexander Bell created the telephone and this invention helped with communication between people
  • Social darwisism

    Social darwisism
    the theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals. Now largely discredited, social Darwinism was advocated by Herbert Spencer
  • F.W Wool Worth ( Frank Winfield)

    F.W Wool Worth   ( Frank Winfield)
    Woolworth Retail was a company that sold Food, and clothing
  • Joel Tiffany

    Joel Tiffany
    Joel invented the refrigerated rail road car. in this ceation they were able to keep meat products cold and able to ship them from state to state.
  • John D Rockefeller

    John D Rockefeller
    John was an oil company owner. he charged oil for $55 dollars. ( which is very cheap now a days) oil helped alot with machines
  • Thomas Edison

    Thomas Edison
    Thomas Edison Created the light bulb in the year 1884. this creation helped with people who worked night shifts and it replaced the oil lanterns
  • ottmar mergenthaler

    ottmar mergenthaler
    ottmar created the typesetting machine in whuch would help news paper and magazines with their columns
  • George Eastman

    George Eastman
    George invented Roll film. He also invented the first hand held camera. which he also later on named it Kodak
  • andrew carnegie

    andrew carnegie
    Andrew was the man who created the steel industries. with out him thei propably would have been no railroads or anything to do with metal