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100
The man who helped make electricity more widely available.
who is Thomas Edison
100
Thomas Edison invented this.
What is the Electric power
100
When the enterprise expands and the production of goods goes up the cost per item goes down.
What is Economy of Scale
100
largest suspention bridge.
What is the Brooklyn Bridge
100
National labor union, the Knights of labor, the American Federation of labor.
What is the three major unions.
200
Created the first Talking Telegraph in the year 1876.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell
200
a record player or gramophone which recorded sounds on metal foil.
What is the Phonograph
200
Companies working together so they didn't have to compete with each other.
What is Trust
200
a private police force
What are pinkertons
200
loose associations of buisnesses, making the same product.
What are cartels
300
He was a great industrialist.
Who is Andrew Carnegie
300
A mechanical device with keys that when pressed would cause the keys to be printed on paper.
What is the typewriter
300
When a business buys out all its competitors and patients.
What is monopoly
300
a route accross the continent.
What are the transcontinental railroads
300
Whoever made the most items, made the most money.
What is Piecework
400
He made a town for his factory workers.
Who is George Pullman
400
device that enabled trains to be stopped with fail-safe accuracy.
What are Air breaks
400
A method used by other industrialists gained control of all phases of a products development.
What is Vertical Consolidation
400
announced a wage cut of 10%, which was the second cut in 8 months.
What is Baltimore and Ohio railroad
400
political radicals who oppose all government
What are anarchists
500
This mad developed more effective air breaks.
Who is George Westinghouse
500
A device that sent messages between train stations and moving trains.
What is the Telegraph system
500
A method that involved bringing together many firms in the same business.
What is Horizontal consolidation
500
where did Engineer John A. Roebling immigrate from
What is germany
500
Who left their job to be an inventor
Who is edison
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