Across
- 2. System of connected lines
- 3. Created machine that oiled engines automatically
- 8. Discounts to businesses biggest customers
- 10. Invented the first phone. Quicker communication and no need to go to the post office anymore.
- 12. Owned 45,000 miles of railroad tracks. Very wealthy man, gained his tracks and wealth through ruthless tactics
- 15. Businesses owned by investors
- 17. Enabled steel makers to produce strong steal for a low cost
- 19. Shares in the business
- 20. Most wealthy and successful man in the oil business. 1st american billionaire. Established the Standard Oil Company
Down
- 1. Work place where people labored long hours in poor conditions for low pay
- 4. Richest man in all of the steel industry
- 5. A license for a new invention
- 6. Invented the air break, which allowed trains to stop all the cars at once
- 7. Created the sleeping car
- 9. Businesses owned by privet citizens
- 11. Nicknamed "Wizard of Menlo Park". Created a minor invention every 10 or so days. Known as the greatest inventor of the age.
- 13. Controls all the business of an industry
- 14. Invented the first "lightweight" camera, called the Kodak Camera
- 16. To combine
- 18. Steel mills made it the capital of steel making