Inventions
This is something people use to see in the dark
The lightbulb
This person created the Standard Oil company
John D. Rockefeller
This is the business that gives us hamburgers
The meat industry
This is someone who builds tall buildings
construction worker
This is a company that has very little competition
A monopoly
This is how movies were made
motion picture camera
This person created a successful steel company
Andrew Carnegie
This industry turns petroleum in gas and oil
oil and gas industry
This type of worker helps to transport people and animals in large moving vehicles
train operator
This is a business practice where a company owns all the other competing businesses
horizontal integration
This invention allowed people to communicate with each other quickly
telephone
This person was known as a railroad tycoon
Cornelius Vanderbilt
This industry helps us to travel far distances without stopping for traffic lights
railroad industry
This person was responsible for slaughtering animals to be sold as food
This is a big, strong company that is often a monopoly.
A trust
This is a machine that plays recorded sounds
A phonograph
This is a person who starts and runs a business.
Entrepreneur
This person is someone who thinks of and decides how to make new products
An inventor
This person uses science and math to design and build things like buildings and machines.
An Engineer
This is a process where a company controls each step in making a product.
Vertical integration
This was a new way of making products where workers stood at a line and worked on one specific task to complete a product.
Assembly line
This is the inventor of the telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
This industry is responsible for the materials that helped to build all the tall buildings
The steel industry
This is someone who operates Elisha Owens famous invention that takes us up and down in buildings
Elevator operator
This is a place where raw material are made pure and turned into useful products
A refinery