2nd Industrial Revolution / Gilded Age

Brought snapshot photography to the mainstream

• Edwin Drake

• Thomas Edison

• George Eastman

• Cyrus Field

Discovered crude oil in PA

• Edwin Drake

• Thomas Edison

• George Eastman

• Cyrus Field

Connected Europe and the Americas with the transatlantic telegraph cable

• Edwin Drake

• Thomas Edison

• George Eastman

• Cyrus Field

Kind of a jerk, but was also the Wizard of Menlo Park

• Edwin Drake

• Thomas Edison

• George Eastman

• Cyrus Field

1st Commercially successful typewriter

• Sholes, Glidden and Soule

• Isaac Singer

• William Seward Burroughs

• Henry Ford

Adding machine inventor

• Sholes, Glidden and Soule

• Isaac Singer

• William Seward Burroughs

• Henry Ford

Made an affordable car for the masses using the assembly line

• Sholes, Glidden and Soule

• Isaac Singer

• William Seward Burroughs

• Henry Ford

IMPROVED the sewing machine

• Sholes, Glidden and Soule

• Isaac Singer

• William Seward Burroughs

• Henry Ford

Edison and Tesla may have gone to war over whose current was a better idea, but this guy chose Tesla's Alternating current to expand the power grid.

• George Westinghouse

• Isaac Singer

• Orville and Wilbur Wright

• Henry Ford

First airplane flight at Kittyhawk, NC

• George Westinghouse

• Isaac Singer

• Orville and Wilbur Wright

• Henry Ford