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Elisha Otis
Elisha Graves Otis was the founder of the Otis Elevator Company, and inventor of a safety device that prevents elevators from falling if the hoisting cable fails. This helped make trips to the top floors of buildings faster and safer -
Macy's
It is a chain of deparment stores.Known for its diversity of merchandice. -
Social Darwinism
it is used to describe the use of concepts of struggle for existence and survival of the fittest to justify social policies which make no distinction between those able to support themselves and those unable to support themselves. -
Chrstopher Sholes
Christopher Latham Sholes was an American inventor who invented the first practical typewriter and the QWERTY keyboard.
This changed the way we type on comuters today. -
John D. Rockefeller
John Davison Rockefeller was an American industrialist. He was the founder of the Standard Oil Company, which dominated the oil industry. He revolutionised the petrolium industry. -
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell was a scientist, inventor, and innovator who is credited with inventing the telephone.
This invention helped make modern communication possible. -
Joel Tiffany
Joel Tiffany created the refrigerator car company. This helped move refrigerated goods from one place to another. -
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison was an American inventor. He developed many devices including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and the pratical electric light bulb. The light bulb is the most rememberd of his inventions. Without the light bulb we would still be using candles. -
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century. He revolutionised the steel industry. -
Ottmar Mergenthaler
Ottmar Mergenthaler was a German-born inventor who has been called a second Gutenberg because of his invention of the Linotype machine. The machine revolutionised the art of printing. -
George Eastman
Started the eastman kodak company and popularised the use of roll film. He helped make photography more common. -
Gustavis Swift
Gustavus Franklin Swift founded a meat-packing empire in the Midwest during the late 19th century. It helped make way for the refridgerated box car. -
F.W. Woolworth
Woolworth was the founder of F. W. Woolworth Company.He was the first to use self-service display cases.
