Soc Studies Ch 19 Inventors
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 George M. Pullman | This man introduced improved dining cars, raising train travel to a new level of luxury |
| Eli H. Janney | Invents car couplers |
| Alexander Graham Bell | Invents telephone - instant communication |
| Christopher Sholes | Invents typewriter - businesses operate efficiently |
| William Burrough | invents adding machine - helped business run more efficiently |
| George Eastman | invents small camera - easier & cheaper to take photos |
| Thomas Edison | invents electric lightbulb - allows people to see without candles and power plant - electric power could be distributed to many lightbulbs at once |
| George Westinghouse | invents long-distance transformer - sends electric power long distances & invents air brakes |
| Jan Matzeliger | invents shoemaking machine - performed many steps made by hand |
| Henry Ford | Invents Model T automobile - was affordable & assembly line - less expensive way to produce cars |
| Wright Brothers - Orville & Wilbur | invents airplane w/12-horsepower engine |
| Samuel Gompers | led the American Federation of Labor |
| Eugene V. Debs | leader of the pullman Strike |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt | one of the first railroad barons & made a fortune by consolidating several companies |
| Cyrus Field | He laid a telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean in 1866 |
| Andrew Carnegie | This steel industrialist donated $350 million as a philanthropist |
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