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Who produced a thornless cactus which could be used for cattle feed in the dry regions of the West?
Luther Burbank
Who found a variety of wheat in Russia that would grow with very little rainfall?
Mark Carleton
Who discovered over three hundred uses for the peanut?
George Washington Carver
Who invented the incandescent electric lamp?
Thomas Edison
Who patented the first telephone in 1876?
Alexander Graham Bell
___ ran as the Populist presidential candidate in the election of 1892.
James B. Weaver
___ drilled America's first oil well in northwestern Pennsylvania.
Edwin Drake
___ contributed $3 million to promote education in the South.
George Peabody
___ became known as the Pittsburgh of the South because of her iron and steel manufacturing.
Birmingham
In ___ Congress passed the Interstate Commerce Act.
1887
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