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