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Elisha Otis
Elisha Graves Otis was an American industrialist, founder of the Otis Elevator Company, and inventor of a safety device that prevents elevators from falling if the cable breaks. -
Macy's
Macy's is a chain of depertment stores owned by American Multinational cooporation Macy's Inc -
John D. Rockefeller
founder of the Standard Oil Company, became one of the world’s wealthiest men and a major philanthropist. -
Christopher Latham Sholes
Typewriter inventor -
Social Darwinism
Social Darwinism is a belief, popular in the late Victorian era in England, America, and elsewhere, which states that the strongest or fittest should survive and flourish in society, while the weak and unfit should be allowed to die. -
Andrew Carnegie
. In the early 1870s, he entered the steel business, and over the next two decades became a dominant force in the industry. -
Alexander Grahm Bell
Invened the First telephone. -
Joel Tiffany
Mr. Tiffany was not only a lawyer but also an inventor, most widely known for his invention of the Tiffany Summer and Winter Refrigerator car. -
F.W. Woolworth
He opened his first F.W. Woolworth store in the outskirts of Utica, New York in 1879, but the store closed the following year. Deciding that his problem had been a poor location, he opened a new store in downtown Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1881. -
Thomas Edison
Improved the Design of the light bulb and made it work -
Gustavis Swift
Gustavis Swift founded a meat packaging company. -
Ottmar Mergenthaler
In 1886 he introduced the linotype line casting machine, so named because it set an entire line of type at a time. -
George Eastman
George Eastman was the founder of the Eastman Kodak Company. He helped photography become more popular.