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Industrialization ID
Term | Definition |
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Andrew Carnegie | Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist. Carnegie led the expansion of the American steel industry |
Thomas Edison | An American inventor and businessman who has been described as America's greatest inventor. He invented many things in the field of electronics, light and sound. |
Henry Ford | An American industrialist, chief developer of the assembly line technique of mass production |
Robert Fulton | Robert Fulton was an American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the world's first commercially successful steamboat |
John D. Rockefeller | Founder of Standard Oil and American business and philanthropist. Often regarded as one of the richest American ever. |
Eli Whitney | An American inventor, widely known for inventing the cotton gin, one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution that shaped the economy of the Antebellum South and prolonged the end of slavery. |
Cornelius Vanderbilt | An American business magnate who built his wealth in railroads and shipping. |
J.P. Morgan | An American financier and banker who dominated corporate finance on Wall Street throughout the Gilded Age. |