7th SS Study Guide 10.4 -10.6 Flashcards
Who invented a shoe-making machine that performed many steps previously done by hand?
Jan Matzelliger
A group of national trade unions, in 1886, formed?
AFL
Who invented the telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell
Whose electric power plant lit up 85 buildings in New York City?
Thomas Edison
Who linked Europe and the United States with a transatlantic telegraph line?
Cyrus Field
Who was the inventor of the railroad sleeping car?
George Pullman
What steel company owner who was also a philanthropist?
Andrew Carnigie
The U.S. attorney General ordered an injunction to stop what strike?
The Haymarket Riot
When railroads were consolidated this group of men was formed?
Railroad barrens
Who took Edison’s work a step further by developing a transformer?
George westinghouse
What was Thomas Edison’s most important invention?
Light bulb
In what year did Henry Ford introduce the Model T to the public?
1908
Who developed railroad refrigerator cars?
Gustavus Swift
Who formed Standard Oil Company of Ohio?
John D Rockefeller
Who led the Pullman Strike?
Debbs
How many inventions did Granville Woods patent?
More than 50
What did Lewis Howard Latimer invent?
Carbon filament light bulb
What did George Westinghouse invent?
Transformer
Who pioneered the assembly line?
Henry Ford
After what event did the anti-labor feeling begin to grow?
Haymarket Riot
What led to the creation of the multimillion-dollar petroleum industry?
Drake’s oil discovery in Titusville, Tennessee
Which philanthropist built more the 2000 libraries worldwide?
Andrew Carnigie
Child-labor laws did not apply to this industry that employed about 1 million children?
Agriculture
