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Big Business Names
US History 1878: Big Business Names
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Thomas Alva Edison | Invented many things, including the electric light bulb |
| Alexander Graham Bell | Invented the telephone |
| Lewis Latimer | Invented a carbon filament for lights |
| Elijah McCoy | Invented an "oil cup" |
| Andrew Carnegie | Owned steel mills |
| John D. Rockefeller | Created an oil monopoly |
| Mary Harris Jones | Organized strikes |
| Samuel Gompers | Established the American Federation of Labor |