-
F.W. woolworth
At 20 years of age F. W. Woolworth found work in exchange for room and board at a local dry goods store, and after his employers held a successful clearance sale he saw the possibilities of a discount store. -
george eastmen
He began his business career as a 14-year old office boy in an insurance company and followed that with work as a clerk in a local bank. -
Andrew Carnegie
William Carnegie's handloom business dwindled in the wake of industrialization, and in 1848 the family emigrated to the United States, settling in Allegheny, Pennsylvania. -
elisha otis
Elisha Otis didn't invent the elevator, he invented something perhaps more important-the elevator safety device that eventually made high-rise buildings practical. -
christopher sholes
He was a printer by trade, and familiar with the tedious, time-consuming process of typesetting. -
Gustavis Swift
A butcher’s helper at the age of 14, Swift became a buyer and slaughterer of cattle in 1859 and also opened a butcher shop in Eastham, Mass. He became the partner of James A. Hathaway, a Boston meat dealer, in 1872. -
thomas edison
The word phonograph was the trade name for Edison's device, which played cylinders rather than discs. The machine had two needles: one for recording and one for playback. When you spoke into the mouthpiece, the sound vibrations of your voice would be indented onto the cylinder by the recording needle. This cylinder phonograph was the first machine that could record and reproduce sound created a sensation and brought Edison international fame. -
joel tifany
Tiffany is often credited with being a pioneer in the design of refrigerated railroad cars, but though his patent describes an insulated and ice-cooled car in great detail -
alexander graham bell
Alexander Graham Bell might easily have been content with the success of his telephone invention. -
Ottmar Mergenthaler
Ottmar Mergenthaler's invention of the linotype composing machine in 1886 is regarded as the greatest advance in printing since the development of moveable type 400 years earlier. -
john d rockefeller
By the age of 12, he had saved over $50 from working for neighbors and raising some turkeys for his mother. At the urging of his mother, he loaned a local farmer $50 at 7% interest payable in one year. When the farmer paid him back with interest the next year Rockefeller was impressed and said of it in 1904: "The impression was gaining ground with me that it was a good thing to let the money be my servant and not make myself a slave to the money…" -
social darwinism
is an athiest lie
