Second Industrial Revolution Inventors

1. George Pullman

Created the Railroad Sleeping Car

2. George Westinghouse

Created the Railway Air Brake

3. Henry Ford

Created a Less Expensive Automobile/ Assembly Line

4. Wilbur and Orville Wright

Created the First Powered Airplane

5. Granville T. Woods

Created the Multiplex Telegraph

6. Elijah McCoy

Created the Steam Engine Lubricator/Oil-drip cups for trains

7. Henry Plant

He formed the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad

8. Henry Flagler

He formed Florida East Coast Railroad

9. Henry Bessemer

Created the Bessemer process

10. Andrew Carnegie

Adopted the Bessemer Process/ Vertical Integration

11. Samuel Morse

Created the Telegraph/Morse Code

12. Cyrus Field

Created the Transatlantic Cable

13. Alexander Graham Bell

Created the telephone

14. Christopher Sholes

Created the typewriter

15. Thomas Alva Edison

Created the phonograph, electric light bulb, and motion pictures

16. Nicola Tesla

Created the alternating electrical current (AC)

17. Lewis Howard Latimer

Created a new process for making carbon filaments in light bulbs. Worked with Bell/Edison

18. Edwin Drake

First oil well drilled in Pennsylvania

19. J.D Rockefeller

Created the Standard Oil Company/ Horizontal Integration

20. Josephine Cochran

Created the Automatic Dishwasher

21. John Albert Burr

He improved the rotary-blade lawn mower

22. Sarah Goode

Created the Fold-Away Bed

23. Madam C.J Walker

Hair care products for African American women

24. Jan Ernst Matzeliger

Created a machine for attaching soles to shoes

25. Garrett Morgan

Created the Traffic Signal/Smoke Safety Hood

26. J.P Morgan

Formed Commercial/ Investment Banking Institution. Financed Edison and Carnegie.

Formed Commercial/ Investment Banking Institution. Financed Edison and Carnegie.