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The inventor of the Bessemer Process to manufactor steel. | Henry Bessemer |
He focused his attention on steelmaking and made a fortune through his vertical integration method. | Andrew Canegie |
He was an American inventor who developed the mechanical reaper. | Cyrus McCormick |
He developed the first American cast steel plow. | John Deere |
Invented the telephone. | Alexander Graham Bell |
American business leader who controlled the New York Central Railroad and up to 4,500 miles of railroad track; he later donated $1 million to a Tennessee university. | Cornelius Vanderbilt |
best known for the palatial railroad sleeping and dining cars | Geroge M. Pullman |
Inventor of the air brake system. | George Westinghouse |
The inventor of incandescent light bulb, the phonograph, and the motion picture camera | Thomas Alva Edison |
He made a fortune in the oil business and used vertical and horizontal integration to establish a monopoly on the steel business. | John D. Rockefeller |
Founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People | W.E.B. Du Bois |
Founder of what is now known as DuPont, one of the world’s largest chemical and industrial companies | E.I. Du Point |
Armour & Company enterprises helped make Chicago the meatpacking capital of the world. | Philip Danforth Armour |
refigerated rail road cars. | Gustavus Franklin Swift |
hershy chocolate | Mitlon S. Hershey |
financer. bought and sold companies and was a banker. | J.P. Morgan |
invented mail order | Montgomery Ward |
african american who founded a university. | Booker T. Washington |
spoke out about women rights and against slavery. | Sojourner Truth |
She was a social worker, reformer, and pacifist. | Jane Addams |
one of the first photographers to use flash powder | Jacob Riis |
founder of wal mart | Sam Walton |
first businessman to apply principles of mass production in a service industry | Ray Kroc |
engineered one of business history's greatest comebacks at Chrysler Corporation | Lee Iacocca |
CEO of the trump orgnization. Real estate. | Donald J. Trump |
Microsoft creator | Bill Gates |
Created dell | Michael Dell |
founded amazon.com | Jeff Bezos |