Industry, Inventions, Urban Development, and Billionaires

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  1. 5. Invented the first fully synthetic plastic called Bakelite.
  2. 6. A business owned by investors.
  3. 8. Invented the first successful American automobile powered by gasoline.
  4. 10. A person who creates a new business for profit.
  5. 13. Invented the automated shoe-making machine.
  6. 15. Made stronger steel at a lower price and helped to make steel the building material of choice over iron.
  7. 20. A group of corporations lead by a board of directors.
  8. 21. An official document granting an inventor the sole right to make, sell, and profit from her/his invention.
  9. 24. In 1876, he invented the telephone.
  10. 25. African American inventor who invented automatic lubricator for steam engines. He held 57 patents.
  11. 26. A company or business that controls all or almost all of a business in a specific field.
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  1. 1. Carnegie’s idea that the wealthy must help to better society.
  2. 2. Invented the milking machine to milk cows and was the first woman to receive a patent for an agricultural invention.
  3. 3. A manufacturing method in which a product is put together as it moves along the conveyor belt.
  4. 4. As a young man of 23, he invested in an oil refinery and used the profits to buy up other oil companies. He beat the competition by lowering prices, and he created the Standard Oil Trust.
  5. 7. Invented the airplane, and by 1920s, the airplane began to alter the world by making travel quicker and easier. Airplanes were used in WWI.
  6. 9. Used dots and dashes to spell out messages to communicate across the country.
  7. 11. Invented the typewriter.
  8. 12. A leader in the steel industry who gained power over every step in the steel making process. In 1892, he joined his businesses in iron mines, steel mills, railroads, and shipping lines to create _____________ Steel Company.
  9. 14. This American manufacturer made the automobile available to millions. Unfortunately, he was a well-known antisemite.
  10. 16. Invented a lightweight easy to use camera to take photos.
  11. 17. To change or make something or someone different.
  12. 18. Oil that was refined into gasoline for fuel and lubricants for machinery.
  13. 19. The precursor to the computer that helped to employ women as secretaries who could type 60 words a minute for businesses.
  14. 22. Invented the lightbulb in 1879. In 1882, he opened the nation's first power plant in New York City.
  15. 23. A process that purifies a resource like oil.