https://padlet.com/kikithekaka/hmiv84ha64df en-us 2016-09-23 18:58:16 UTC 2025-04-30 15:40:38 UTC hello@padlet.com kikithekaka https://padlet.com/kikithekaka/hmiv84ha64df/wish/126259758 The first man to successfully drill for oil.]]> 2016-09-26 03:47:04 UTC https://padlet.com/kikithekaka/hmiv84ha64df/wish/126259758 kikithekaka https://padlet.com/kikithekaka/hmiv84ha64df/wish/126259833 A cheap and efficient process for making steel, developed around 1850.]]> 2016-09-26 03:48:05 UTC https://padlet.com/kikithekaka/hmiv84ha64df/wish/126259833 kikithekaka https://padlet.com/kikithekaka/hmiv84ha64df/wish/126259885 American inventor and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the electric light bulb.]]> 2016-09-26 03:48:39 UTC https://padlet.com/kikithekaka/hmiv84ha64df/wish/126259885 kikithekaka https://padlet.com/kikithekaka/hmiv84ha64df/wish/126259919 American inventor who invented the first practical typewriter and the QWERTY keyboard still in use today.]]> 2016-09-26 03:49:01 UTC https://padlet.com/kikithekaka/hmiv84ha64df/wish/126259919 kikithekaka https://padlet.com/kikithekaka/hmiv84ha64df/wish/126259953 Scottish born scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone.]]> 2016-09-26 03:49:28 UTC https://padlet.com/kikithekaka/hmiv84ha64df/wish/126259953 kikithekaka https://padlet.com/kikithekaka/hmiv84ha64df/wish/126260002 A railroad line linking the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States, completed in 1869.]]> 2016-09-26 03:50:09 UTC https://padlet.com/kikithekaka/hmiv84ha64df/wish/126260002 kikithekaka https://padlet.com/kikithekaka/hmiv84ha64df/wish/126260053 American engineer and industrialist who manufactured the Pullman sleeping car.]]> 2016-09-26 03:50:53 UTC https://padlet.com/kikithekaka/hmiv84ha64df/wish/126260053 kikithekaka https://padlet.com/kikithekaka/hmiv84ha64df/wish/126260091 A construction company formed in 1864 by owners of the Union Pacific Railroad, who used it to fraudulently skim off railroad profits for themselves.]]> 2016-09-26 03:51:23 UTC https://padlet.com/kikithekaka/hmiv84ha64df/wish/126260091 kikithekaka https://padlet.com/kikithekaka/hmiv84ha64df/wish/126260123 An 1877 case in which the Supreme Court upheld states' regulation of railroads for the benefit of farmers and consumers, thus establishing the right of government to regulate private industry to serve the public interest.]]> 2016-09-26 03:51:44 UTC https://padlet.com/kikithekaka/hmiv84ha64df/wish/126260123 kikithekaka https://padlet.com/kikithekaka/hmiv84ha64df/wish/126260151 A law enacted in 1887, that established the federal government's right to supervise railroad activities and created a five-member Interstate Commerce Commission to do so.]]> 2016-09-26 03:52:18 UTC https://padlet.com/kikithekaka/hmiv84ha64df/wish/126260151 kikithekaka https://padlet.com/kikithekaka/hmiv84ha64df/wish/126260178 Scottish American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century.]]> 2016-09-26 03:52:39 UTC https://padlet.com/kikithekaka/hmiv84ha64df/wish/126260178 kikithekaka https://padlet.com/kikithekaka/hmiv84ha64df/wish/126260203 A company's taking over its suppliers and distributors and transportation systems to gain total control over the quality and cost of its product.]]> 2016-09-26 03:53:03 UTC https://padlet.com/kikithekaka/hmiv84ha64df/wish/126260203 kikithekaka https://padlet.com/kikithekaka/hmiv84ha64df/wish/126260232 The merging of companies that make similar products.]]> 2016-09-26 03:53:25 UTC https://padlet.com/kikithekaka/hmiv84ha64df/wish/126260232 kikithekaka https://padlet.com/kikithekaka/hmiv84ha64df/wish/126260265 An economic and social philosophy - supposedly based on the biologist Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection - holding that a system of unrestrained competition will ensure the survival of the fittest.]]> 2016-09-26 03:53:48 UTC https://padlet.com/kikithekaka/hmiv84ha64df/wish/126260265 kikithekaka https://padlet.com/kikithekaka/hmiv84ha64df/wish/126260300 American businessman and philanthropist who was the co-founder of the Standard Oil Company, which dominated the oil industry.]]> 2016-09-26 03:54:16 UTC https://padlet.com/kikithekaka/hmiv84ha64df/wish/126260300 kikithekaka https://padlet.com/kikithekaka/hmiv84ha64df/wish/126260352 A law, enacted in 1890, that was intended to prevent the creation of monopolies by making it illegal to establish trusts that interfered with free trade.]]> 2016-09-26 03:55:02 UTC https://padlet.com/kikithekaka/hmiv84ha64df/wish/126260352 kikithekaka https://padlet.com/kikithekaka/hmiv84ha64df/wish/126260402 An English-born American cigar maker who became a Georgist labor union leader and a key figure in American labor history.]]> 2016-09-26 03:55:52 UTC https://padlet.com/kikithekaka/hmiv84ha64df/wish/126260402 kikithekaka https://padlet.com/kikithekaka/hmiv84ha64df/wish/126260433 An alliance of trade and craft unions, formed in 1886.]]> 2016-09-26 03:56:15 UTC https://padlet.com/kikithekaka/hmiv84ha64df/wish/126260433 kikithekaka https://padlet.com/kikithekaka/hmiv84ha64df/wish/126260465 An American Union leader, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World.]]> 2016-09-26 03:56:43 UTC https://padlet.com/kikithekaka/hmiv84ha64df/wish/126260465 kikithekaka https://padlet.com/kikithekaka/hmiv84ha64df/wish/126260494 A labor organization for unskilled workers, formed by a group of radical unionists and socialists in 1905.]]> 2016-09-26 03:57:06 UTC https://padlet.com/kikithekaka/hmiv84ha64df/wish/126260494 kikithekaka https://padlet.com/kikithekaka/hmiv84ha64df/wish/126260552 An Irish-American schoolteacher who became a prominent labor and community organizer. Co-founded the Industrial Workers of the World.]]> 2016-09-26 03:57:57 UTC https://padlet.com/kikithekaka/hmiv84ha64df/wish/126260552