Across
- 4. American inventor, businessman, and community leader and inventor of three-way traffic light,
- 5. Process of bringing about new ideas, methods, products, services, or solutions that have a significant positive impact and value.
- 6. First African American women to be granted a patent by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, for her invention of a folding cabinet bed.
- 7. Economic system based on private ownership.
- 8. American inventors and pioneers of aviation.
- 10. United States law which prescribes the rule of free competition among those engaged in commerce.
- 12. A process of making steel from pig iron by burning out carbon and other impurities.
- 13. Considered the wealthiest American of all time and the richest person in modern history.
- 19. Submarine communications cable connecting one side of the Atlantic Ocean to the other.
- 20. A relationship in which the holder of property (or any other transferable right) gives it to another person or entity.
- 23. A person who organizes and operates a business or businesses.
- 26. Invented lubrication systems for steam engines.
- 27. Creator of the Bessemer Process.
- 28. American industrialist and inventor of the Pullman sleeping car.
- 29. A period of groundbreaking advancements in manufacturing, technology, and industrial production methods from 1870 to 1914.
Down
- 1. American inventor and patent draftsman. His inventions included an evaporative air conditioner,
- 2. An organization—usually a group of people or a company—authorized by the state to act as a single entity.
- 3. American industrialist and a founder of Standard Oil
- 9. American inventor and industrialist who was a pioneer of the electrical industry and the railway air brake.
- 11. The exclusive possession or control of the supply of or trade in a commodity or service.
- 14. Strategy of a company increasing production of goods or services at the same level of the value chain.
- 15. Strategy that allows a company to streamline its operations by taking direct ownership of various stages.
- 16. Consist of all the shares by which ownership of a corporation or company is divided.
- 17. An African American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and political and social activist.
- 18. Economic where supply and demand determine the prices and quantities of goods and services.
- 21. Retail establishments that do business by mail, sending orders and payments by post or parcel.
- 22. Biracial Surinamese American inventor whose automated lasting machine brought significant change to the manufacturing of shoes.
- 24. American financier and investment banker who dominated corporate finance on Wall Street throughout the Gilded Age.
- 25. Inventor of the telegraph systems, the carbon microphone for telephones, the phonograph, and the carbon filament lamp.
