People
George Westinghouse
devised air brakes
Company that sold shares or stock?
Corporation
Richard Olney tried to stop what?
Pullman Strike
Rail system encouraged the expansion of what?
Economy
Steel company owner?
Andrew Carnegie
George Eastman
invented camera
Partial owners, people who invested in corporations by buying stock?
Shareholders
Eli Janney
Car couplers, made it easier for railroad workers to link cars.
Who invented the railroad sleeping car?
George Pullman
1881 Group of national trade unions formed organization?
American Federation of Labor
Cornelius Vanderbuilt
one of the 1st railroad barons, gained control of New York line then made a fortune by consolidating companies.
Philanthropists
built 2,000 libraries
Henry Ford
Model T
Transatlantic telegraph line creator?
Cyrus Field
Cyrus Field
Linked U.S. to transatlantic telegraph line.
Granville Woods
electrical and mechanical engineer. (invented incubator) 35 inventions
Practice of combining separate companies?
Consolidation
Alexander Graham Bell
Telephone
The inventor had over 1,000 patents?
Thomas Edison
John D. Rockefeller
Mary Jones
Known as "Mother Jones" and spent 50 years fighting for women's workers rights.
Combining of companies?
Mergers
Edwin Drake
Drilled 1st successful oil well.
Who flew the engine powered plane?
The Wright brothers
James J. Hill
Built line between Minnesota and Washington state.