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Elisha Otis
Elisha Otis was an industrialist, he founded the Otis Elevator Company. He invented a safety device that kept an elevator from falling if the cables fail. -
Macy’s
Macy’s is a department store that was founded by Isidor Straus and Rowland Hussey Macy in 1858. Macy's is still around today. -
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie expanded the American steel industry -
John D. Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller was the founder of the Standard OIl Company. -
Cristopher Sholes
Christopher Sholes invented the first practical typewriter. He also created the QWERTY keyboard, which is still being used today. -
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell was an inventor who created the first practical telephone. -
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison was an American innovator who invented many things. He invented the phonograph, motion picture camera, and even the lightbulb. -
Social Darwinism
Theory that persons, groups, and “races” are subject to the same laws of natural selection as Charles Darwin had proposed for plants and animals in nature. Social Darwinists, such as Herbert Spencer and Walter Bagehot in England and William Graham Sumner in the U.S., held that the life of humans in society was a struggle for existence ruled by “survival of the fittest,” in Spencer's words. Wealth was said to be a sign of natural superiority, its absence a sign of unfitness. -
Joel Tiffany
Joel Tiffany invented the first refridgerator car. He was also the founder of the Tiffany Refridgerator Car Company. -
F.W. Woolworth
F.W. Woolworth founded the present day "Foot Locker". He founded one of the first discount shoe stores. -
Gustavis Swift
Gustavis Swift founded a meat packaging company. -
Ottmar Mergenthaler
Ottmar Mergenthaler revolutionized the art of printing by inventing the Linotype Machine. -
George Eastman
George Eastman was the founder of the Eastman Kodak Company. He helped photography become more popular.
