Inventors
An African-American inventor who improved electrical lighting and worked with Thomas Edison.
Who was Lewis Latimer
What is a sewing machine?
A business owned by investors who buy shares.
What is a corporation?
The pattern of good and bad economic times.
What is the business cycle?
This is the largest mammal in the world.
What is a Blue Whale?
A method developed to produce steel more efficiently and cheaply.
What was the Bessemer Process?
Women played an important role in telephones by operating this type of job.
What are switchboard operators?
Founder of Standard Oil Trust and a major player in the oil industry.
Who was John D. Rockefeller
Spending decreases leading to layoffs and reduced production happens during this economic period.
What is a bust?
This painter/inventor created the Mona Lisa.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
He invented the telephone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
Christopher Latham Sholes made secretarial work faster and easier by creating this new invention in 1867.
What is the typewriter?
A business that gains control of an industry by eliminating competition.
What is a monopoly?
A period of low economic activity.
What is a depression?
Bees collect this to make honey.
What is nectar?
The electric light bulb and a system to deliver electricity was made by this inventor.
Who is Thomas Edison?
This new invention from the steel industry improved farming.
What are plows?
By controlling all processes related to steel manufacturing, this individual grew his business to extraordinary heights.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
The act of giving large sums of money to charities.
Philanthropy
This was the city in which the first modern Olympic Games were held.
What is Athens, Greece.
A government document granting an inventor exclusive rights to their invention.
What is a patent?
What are factories?
A legal body created to hold stock in many companies in an industry.
What is a trust?
An era of fabulous wealth that masked societal problems.
What was the Gilded Age?
This is the scientific term for the "little brain" at the base of the brain that coordinates movement and balance.
What is the Cerebellum