VIP's Chapter 18 Industry Urban Growth

Thomas Edison

Electric Light Bulb, research lab in Menlo Park NJ, power plant

Alexander Graham Bell

telephone, he wanted something that would carry human voices unlike the telegraph, American Telephone, and Telegraph Company

Henry Ford

automobile, Ford cars, creates the assembly line to make production faster which created lower costs

Wilbur and Orville Wright

airplane , tested a gas-powered airplane at Kitty Hawk North Carolina, brothers

american journalist , delevoped newspapers

Andrew Carnegie

poor Scottish immigrant, railroad business, steel industry, iron mills, steel mills, railroads, and shipping lines, Gospel of Wealth

John D. Rockefeller

son of peddler, oil companies, Standard Oil Trust

Samuel Gompers

Jewish immigrant, formed new union, AFL, American Federation of Labor, collective bargaining

Jane Addams

worked hard in a city of dwellers, strong sympathy, pressed to outlaw child labor

Mark Twain

the pen name Samuel Clemens, writer , huckleberry finn

Joseph Pulizter

newpaper New york world, yellow journalism