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Innovators
Question | Answer |
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Sent the first telegraphic message; advocate of Nativist beliefs | Samuel Morse |
Patented such inventions as the microphone, phonograph and the kinetoscope, a machine for making movies | Thomas Edison |
Developed the process for producing photographic dry plates and the Kodak camera | George Eastman |
Founded a training school for teachers of the deaf; patented the telephone | Alexander Graham Bell |
Invented the safety device that made the passenger elevators | Elisha Otis |
Developed the first commercially viable steamboat | Robert Fulton |
Patented barbed wire | Joseph Glidden |
Publisher of the New York Tribune, influential causes such as abolitionism and free public education | Horace Greeley |
Invented television | Vladimir Zworykin |
Built a publishing empire and pioneered tabloid journalism known as yellow journalism | William Randolph Hearst |
Introduced the Model T, created the moving assembly line | Henry Ford |
Controlled several eastern railroads such as the New York Central RR | Cornelius Vanderbilt |
Made the first successful flights in a motorized aircraft | Orville and Wilbur Wright |
Designed the first successful liquid-fueled rocket | Robert Goddard |
Designed the first sleeper railroad company | George Pullman |
Competed the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight from New York to Paris | Charles Lindbergh |