John D Rockefeller Kerosene

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John D Rockefeller and George Eastman were captains of industry because they were innovators and and philanthropists. Rockefeller introduced new techniques that reshaped the oil industry. Rockefeller used kerosene instead of throwing it out. He sold sold byproduct paraffin to candlemakers, and other byproduct petroleum jelly to medical supply companies. He also used it to pave roads. Rockefeller was able to come up with a way to use something that others saw as waste, when he saw it as gold. The process is to make it is now cheaper. In result, the price of it will be cheaper as well. Eastman was the inventor of the roll of film and dry plate. This caused the camera industry to take off, and it was easier than using the method called the

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