He invented kerosene 

He successfully used a steam engine to drill for oil near Titusville, Pennsylvania making the removing of oil from beneath the earth’s surface practical. 

He established a totalitarian state in Italy.

A manufacturer of sleeping cars and other railroad cars, He built a town for his employees that provided all of the employees basic needs.

Rising from rags to riches, he was one of the first industrial leaders to make his own fortune controlling almost all of the steel industry. 

 On April 9, 1940, he launched a surprise attack on Denmark and Norway “to protect these countries freedom and independence”.

The founder of Standard Oil Company, he used trusts to gain total control over the oil industry in America.

He invented the telephone in 1876.

The ousted leader of Ethiopia he told the league of nations,  “It is us today, it will be you tomorrow”

After a loss of 500,000 lives, he established himself as Spain’s fascist dictator. 

In 1876, he established the world’s first research laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey.

He invented the typewriter.

A French general, he fled to England where he set up a government in exile saying France had lost the battle but not the war. 

Although he knew Americans were deeply committed to staying out of the war, he believed that there could be no peace in a world controlled by dictators. 

He attempted to combine skilled and unskilled workers into one union by starting the American Railway Union.  

He led 16 bombers in an attack on Tokyo and other Japanese cities on April 18, 1942.

The Union leader who was the first president of the American Federation of Labor (AFL).

He proposed that the earth’s surface be divided into 24 time zones, one for each hour of the day. 

The Desert Fox,  he led the Afrika Korps.

He did not live to see V-E Day, dying from a stroke a month earlier.

He used steel to invent barbed wire.

He designed the first skyscraper with a steel frame.

He invented the Steel Plow.

He made the decision to drop Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

In 1876, he established the world’s first research laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey.