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Christopher Sholes
Christopher Sholes invented the practical typewriter and the QWERTY keyboard. -
Isidor Straus and Rowland Hussey Macy
Isidor Straus and Rowland Hussey Macy founded the company/ store Macy's. -
Elisha Otis
Elisha Otis founded the Otis Elevator Company with his invention of the elevator safety device. -
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie was an industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century. -
Social Darwinism
Social Darwinism is not any single well defined concept, but many ideas that seek to apply biological concepts associated with Darwinism or other evolutionary theories. -
John D. Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller was an American industrialist and philanthropist. He was the founder of the Standard Oil Company -
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone -
Joel Tiffany
Joel Tiffany invented the design for the Tiffany Refrigerator Car Company. -
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison was an American inventor and businessman. He invented the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. -
Ottmar Mergenthaler
Ottmar Mergenthaler invented the Linotype machine, the first device that could easily and quickly set complete lines of type for use in printing presses. -
George Eastman
George Eastman founded Eastman Kodak Company -
Gustavus Swift
Gustavus Swift founded a meat-packing empire in the Midwest during the late 19th century. He is credited with the development of the first practical ice-cooled railroad car which allowed his company to ship dressed meats to all parts of the country -
F.W. Woolworth
F.W. Woolworth founded F.W. Woolworth Company. An operator of discount stores that priced merchandise at five and ten cents