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macy's
Macy's was founded by Rowland Hussey in 1858 Macy's today is a huge departtment store with items such as clothes, shoes, apliances, household items, and much more! -
Elisha Otis
Elisha Otis invented the first elevator brake in 1861, his son was the founder of Otis Brothers & Company which sold otis elevators to office buildings, department stores, and hotels. -
Christopher Schoes
Christopher Scholes was the first to invent the practical typewrighter in 1868. It helped people with communication by making it eaiser and faster to type letters -
social Darwinism
Social darwinism is a social theroy founded by Herbert Spencer in 1870, it emerged in the US in 1870 as well. He also came up with the saying, "Survival of the fittest" and it is still used today. -
John D. Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller founded the Standard Oil Comany in 1870. After the company was founded the oil buisness grew from his homeland in Ohio to New York, New York in 1885-1911 -
Gustavis Swift
Gustavis Swift Incorperated a firm with hs brother called Swift And Co. in 1855. It was a meat packaging buisness that slaughtered cows, pigs, and chickens and shipped them across the US in refridgerated box cars. -
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie was the founder and inventor of the first steel plant called The Edgaar Tomson Works in 1875. He was a very wealthy person due to the steel buisness and managment. This plant was one of his plants he owned,out of the many he owned. -
Alexander Graham
Alexander Graham Bell was the inventor of the telephone it helped people in the us communicate bettrer, other than wrighting letters back and fourth and having to wait for a while to recive the letter that you sent, it also helped families keep in touch with each other if they went out of town. -
Joel Tiffany
joel tiffany inventedn the first refridgerated box car to transport butchered meat across the US. He found out that if you have a block of ice and you have air that is blowing across the ice, then the air that is blowing on the ice is now cool air. -
Thomas edison
Thomas Edison was the inventor of many inventions, but the light bulb is the most important inventoin he invented because it is the most useed item in the world, all the way from lights in your house to lights on the mars rover, the light bulb has come a long way! -
George Estman
George Estmans invention was the first roll film in 1884. It was used to take photos and make movies. he also invented the first kodak camera in 1888. -
Ottmar Mergenthaler
The invention of the first linotype composing machine was by Ottmar Mergenthaler in 1886, it was a huge acomplishment for him because it improved the news paper industry by not having to type one letter at a time the linotype made it easier to type because instead of having to type in one letter at a time you could type several at a time. It sped up the newspapprer printing process by a lot1 -
F.W. Woolworth
F.W. woolworth was a company that was founded by Frank Woolwprth in 1911, the company owned a bunch of 5 and ten cent stores.
