Chapter 7 Timeline

By Sidney Gates

  • Elisha Otis

    Elisha Otis was the founder of the elevator, and the inventor of a safety system for if the cable cord on the elevator were to break.

  • Macy's

    Macy's is a mid-range to upscale chain of department stores owned by America.

  • Christopher Sholes

    Christopher Sholes invented the typewriter.

  • John D, Rockefeller

    John D. Rockefeller was the founder of the Standard Oil company.

  • Social Darwinism

    Social Darwinism is the study of human society.

  • Andrew Carnegie

    Andrew Carnegie led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry.

  • Alexander Grahm Bell

    Alexander Grahm Bell invented the first practical telephone.

  • Joel Tiffany

    Joel Tiffany patents the refrigerator car.

  • F.W. Woolworth

    F.W. Woolworth was the founder of the F.W. Woolworth company.

  • Thomas Edison

    Thomas Edison invented the first lightbulb.

  • Ottmar Mergenthaler

    Ottmar Mergenthaler was the inventor of the Linotype machine.

  • Gustavis Swift

    Gustavis Swift founded a meat-packing empire in the midwest.

  • George Eastman

    George Eastman founded the Eastman Kodak company, and invented rolled photography film including the Kodak camera that could use it.