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Chapter 20/intentors
The name or 15 inventors and their inventions
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History
8th Grade
11/17/2009
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George Westinghouse
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invented the air brake,made travel safer
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George Pullman
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Railroad sleeping car
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Cornelius Vanderbilt
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tough-minded business man who used ruthless tactics to force smaller companies to sell to him
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John D. Rockefeller
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multi-millionare who dominated the entire american oil industry
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william Kelly(U.S.)
Hanry Bessemer(England)
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bessemer process
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J.P. Morgan
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the most powerful banker of the late 1800's
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cyrus Field
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transatlantic cable
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Alexander Grahm Bell
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telephone
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thomas Edison
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light bulb, phonograph,motion picture projecter,and electric power plant
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james Ritty
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cash register
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george Eastman
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kodak camera
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gustavus swift
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refrigerator
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henry ford
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assembly line
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Orville and Wilbur Wright
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airplane
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lewis Waterman
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fountain pen
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