dfgh Flashcards
George Westinghouse
Train Air Brake
Henry Ford
Assembly Line
Orville and Wilbur Wright
Airplanes
George Pullman
Railroad Sleeping Car
Gustavus Swift
Refrigerated Rail car
Thomas Edison
Improved Light Bulb / Menlo Park
Alexander Graham Bell
Telephone
Eli Janney
Train Coupling
Factors of production
land, labor, capital
Vertical integration
Purchasing companies in all stages of production. Cattle to slaughter house to refrigerated rail cars to meat packaging to delivery carts.
Horizontal integration
Purchase competing companies in same industry. Other oil companies into big oil company.
What law was against monopolys?
Sherman Antitrust Act
Who formed Standard Oil through horizontal integration?
John D Rockefellers
Who dominated the steel industry through vertical integration?
Andrew Carnegie
Who owned 90% of the railroads in his time?
Cornelius Vanderbilt