Important People of the Gilded Age

successfully used a steam engine to drilled for oil in Titusville, Pennsylvania

• Thomas Edison

• Edwin Drake

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Henry Bessemer

created first laboratory where he invented light bulb and the phonograph

• George Westinghouse

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• Thomas Edison

• Alexander Graham Bell

figured out how to make electricity safer and less expensive as it was transmitted electricity over long distances (alternating current)

• George Westinghouse

• Thomas Edison

• Edwin Drake

• Henry Bessemer

invented the telephone

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Booker T. Washington

• Thomas Edison

• Alexander Graham Bell

was the first African-American to get a PHD. from Harvard and founded the Niagara Movement and

• Booker T. Washington

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Ida B. Wells

• Martin Luther King

Former slave who believed African-Americans could gradually gain equality if they were given access to education and job skills

• Booker T. Washington

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Ida B. Wells

• Malcolm X

invented a process for purifying iron to make steel

• Edwin Drake

• Thomas Edison

• Henry Bessemer

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

a self-made industrialist who used vertical and horizontal integration to build U.S. Steel Company

• Andrew Carnegie

• Donald Trump

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• John D. Rockefeller

a self-made industrialist in the railroad industry, worked with Rockefeller to monopolize the railroad industry

• Andrew Carnegie

• Henry Ford

• George Eastman

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

a banker who purchased successful businesses in order to create a powerful holding company

• J.P. Morgan

• John Rockefeller

• Christopher Sholes

• William Hearst