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12 Cards in this Set
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Andrew Carnegie
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began making steel.
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The U.S. made more steel than anyone else.
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Railroad companies
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built 160,000 miles of track.
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They started some of the first really big corporations.
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Edwin Drake
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found oil in Pennsylvania.
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The rush for "black gold" started.
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John D. Rockefeller
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decided to start a new business
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Standard Oil did 90% of the oil business in the country.
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George Westinghouse
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found the best way to get electricity to consumers.
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He won the "War of the Currents".
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William Randolph Hearst
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used pictures and color to make people want to buy what he was selling.
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He sold more newspapers than anyone else.
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Alexander Graham Bell
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invented the telephone
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Changed the way people communicated
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Thomas Edison
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invented the phonograph
invented a light bulb with carbon filament |
Changed the way people used light to see
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Lewis Latimer
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invented a method for making carbon filaments so they lasted longer
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Helped make electric light practical for everyday use
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Frank and Charles Duryea
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built the first American electric streetcar
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People no longer needed horses to drive their streetcars
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Orville and Wilbur Wright
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invented the first flying machine, a plane
first to fly |
Made air travel possible
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Frank Sprague
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developed the first electric street railway
developed the electric elevator |
Changed how we traveled on the roads without horses
Changed how we traveled from floor to floor in buildings |
