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Elisha Otis
Invented a safety device that prevented the elevator from falling if the hoisting cable fails. -
Macy's
Was an up-scale department store -
Christopher Sholes
Invented the first typewriter and QWERTY keyboard that is still in use today -
John D. Rockefeller
Founder of the Standard oil company -
Alexander Graham Bell
Invented the first telephone -
Joel Tiffany
He founded the Tiffany Refrigerator Car Company -
Social Darwinism
The rich will have everything while the poor get nothing. Herbert Spencer made this in 1875. -
Andrew Carnegie
Opened his first steel plant in 1875 -
Gustavis swift
Founded a Meat-Packing empire in the Midwest -
F,W. Woolworth
He operated discount stores that sold merchandise at 5 and 10 cents -
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison invented the lightbulb in 1879 and in 1877 invented phonagraph -
Ottmar Mergenthaler
Invented the Linotype machine, it was the first machine that could easily and quickly set lines of type for the use of printing presses -
George Eastman
Invented the first Roll Film for cameras