Key Innovators!

telephone

• Thomas Edison

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Nikola Tesla

• Henry Bessemer

Henry Bessemer

• cheaper, easier way to make steel

• more comfortable passenger car for trains

• Tesla coil

• automobile

steel tycoon

• Andrew Carnegie

• John D Rockefeller

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• William M "Boss" Tweed

light bulb

• Henry Bessemer

• Henry Ford

• Thomas Edison

• Nikola Tesla

oil tycoon

• Andrew Carnegie

• John D Rockefeller

• JP Morgan

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

investment banker; one of the richest men in America; bought Carnegie Steel

• JP Morgan

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• John D Rockefeller

• Thomas Edison

alternating current electricity

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Nikola Tesla

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• Ho Chi Minh

railroad tycoon

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• Thomas Edison

• Thomas Nast

• John D Rockefeller

hair care products for women of color

• Madam CJ Walker

• Anne Dallas Dudley

• Ida B Wells

• Susan B Anthony