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Industry Inventors
Term | Definition |
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Gustavus Swift | developed railroad refrigerated cars |
Cyrus Field | laid a transatlantic telegraph cable |
Samuel Gompers | leader of the AFL |
John D. Rockefeller | formed the Standard Oil Company of Ohio |
Sir Henry Steel | invented a new way of producing stronger steel |
Andrew Carnegie | Gospel of Wealth |
Alexander Graham Bell | invented the telephone |
George Eastman | invented a small camera |
Henry Ford | built the Model T + assembly line |
Edwin Drake | petroleum industry |
Jan Matzelinger | shoe-making machine |
George Westinghouse | transformers |
Cornelius Vanderbilt | railroad tycoon |
bomb was thrown and 11 people died | Haymarket Riot |
Union dwindles after this event | Homestead strike |
bought steel company from Andrew Carnegie | J.P. Morgan |
Trusts Network | a group of corportations that unites to reduce competition and control prices |
Monopoly Consolidate | a company that controls all production and sales of a product/service |