2. Gilded Age Section A

First to achieve a sustained, controlled flight in a powered airplane

• Henry Ford

• Wright Brothers

• Gustavus Swift

• Thomas Edison

Developer of an efficient system of mechanical refrigeration, an innovation that earned him a fortune and provided a major stimulus to the growth of the cattle industry.

• Henry Ford

• Wright Brothers

• Gustavus Swift

• Thomas Edison

invented the Kodak camera

• George Eastman

• Henry Ford

• Thomas Edison

• Alexander Graham Bell

United States manufacturer of automobiles who pioneered mass production through the assembly line.

• George Eastman

• Henry Ford

• Thomas Edison

• Alexander Graham Bell

Inventor of lightbulb, phonograph and numerous other innovations, Called the Wizard of Menlo Park

• George Eastman

• Henry Ford

• Thomas Edison

• Alexander Graham Bell

Inventor of the telephone

• George Eastman

• Henry Ford

• Thomas Edison

• Alexander Graham Bell

What did George Pullman invent?

• The sleeping car

• the lightbulb

• the vacuum

• the car

A highly successful banker who bought out Carnegie. With Carnegie's holdings and some others, he launched U.S Steel and made it the first billion dollar corporation.

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• John Rockefeller

• Andrew Carnegie

• J.P. Morgan

Creator of the Standard Oil Company who made a fortune on it and joined with competing companies in trust agreements that in other words made a massive monopoly.

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• John Rockefeller

• Andrew Carnegie

• J.P. Morgan

A Scottish-born American industrialist and philanthropist who founded a steel company in 1892. By 1901, his company dominated the American steel industry.

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• John Rockefeller

• Andrew Carnegie

• J.P. Morgan