Across
- 5. a document giving someone the sole right to make and sell an invention/product
- 6. the first two people to fly in the sky also inventors of airplanes
- 8. to improve something by making small changes
- 10. to speed up
- 13. how or prove to be right or reasonable.
- 14. a center offering help to the urban poor
- 15. to get rid of something
- 16. voting rights of a controlling number of shares of competing firms were entrusted to a small group of men, or trustees, who thus were able to prevent competition among the companies they controlled.
- 18. is the rapid growth of city populations
- 20. A Jewish immigrant who formed a new union.
- 21. a big business giant
- 22. for people who couldn’t afford to go to the doctors
- 23. to change something
- 24. a company that controls most or all business in a particular industry.
Down
- 1. is someone who sets up new businesses to make profit
- 2. unions negotiate with management for workers as a group.
- 3. buildings divided into many tiny apartments
- 4. an American manufacturer, made the automobile available to millions
- 7. a Scottish-born inventor, scientist and engineer who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone
- 9. the system in which privately owned businesses compete freely.
- 11. A manufacturing method in which product is put together as it moves along a belt.
- 12. the richest man in America in the 1800's
- 13. a popular reformer
- 17. “invention factory” at Menlo Park NJ light bulb and hundreds more inventions
- 19. businesses owned by many investors
