https://padlet.com/rojasve22/pu3syaz24oivac7w Made with the best of intentions en-us 2021-01-12 15:06:58 UTC 2025-04-06 20:44:34 UTC hello@padlet.com rojasve22 https://padlet.com/rojasve22/pu3syaz24oivac7w/wish/1083462164 Andrew Carnegie was a businessperson who co-founded a steel company somewhere near Pittsburgh in the early 1870s. His company became a huge successful steel empire. By the 1880s, Carnegie’s business became the world’s first billion-dollar corporation. He became one of the richest men in America of his time. ]]> 2021-01-13 15:31:38 UTC https://padlet.com/rojasve22/pu3syaz24oivac7w/wish/1083462164 rojasve22 https://padlet.com/rojasve22/pu3syaz24oivac7w/wish/1083525825 John D. Rockefeller was a businessman who created the Standard Oil Company in 1870 near Cleveland. It was so successful that it became a near-monopoly of the oil business in America. His monopoly led to antitrust laws being passed against it. He became the richest man of all time just from his oil refinery. ]]> 2021-01-13 15:43:48 UTC https://padlet.com/rojasve22/pu3syaz24oivac7w/wish/1083525825 rojasve22 https://padlet.com/rojasve22/pu3syaz24oivac7w/wish/1083551771 J.P. Morgan is a businessman who co-founded a banking firm in the 1870s in New York. He is responsible for creating today’s financial industry. He also had an involvement in America’s railroad industry and created the General Electric Company. ]]> 2021-01-13 15:49:05 UTC https://padlet.com/rojasve22/pu3syaz24oivac7w/wish/1083551771 rojasve22 https://padlet.com/rojasve22/pu3syaz24oivac7w/wish/1083559596 Cornelius and William Vanderbilt were a father and son pair who were also business men. Together they would make business negotiations and became one of the wealthiest Americans of their time. They invested in steamships and railroad industries in New England in the 1870s. ]]> 2021-01-13 15:50:34 UTC https://padlet.com/rojasve22/pu3syaz24oivac7w/wish/1083559596 rojasve22 https://padlet.com/rojasve22/pu3syaz24oivac7w/wish/1084213146 Alexander Graham Bell is an inventor who created what we know today as the telephone in 1871 in Boston. After he invented the telephone, he continued to work with technology and communications, and later created the Bell Telephone Company in 1877, which is known as today’s AT&T. ]]> 2021-01-13 17:53:24 UTC https://padlet.com/rojasve22/pu3syaz24oivac7w/wish/1084213146 rojasve22 https://padlet.com/rojasve22/pu3syaz24oivac7w/wish/1084214174 Thomas Alva Edison was the inventor who created the lightbulb in 1880 in Ohio. His major contribution of the lightbulb helped build the United States’s economy during the Industrial Revolution. He is considered as one of America’s greatest businessmen and innovators. ]]> 2021-01-13 17:53:36 UTC https://padlet.com/rojasve22/pu3syaz24oivac7w/wish/1084214174 rojasve22 https://padlet.com/rojasve22/pu3syaz24oivac7w/wish/1084214883 Christopher Sholes was an inventor who in 1830 in Milwaukee invented the QWERTY keyboard that is widely used today. Sholes was involved in journalism and politics for a while before he became an inventor, which inspired him to create the keyboard, to make writing faster and more efficient. ]]> 2021-01-13 17:53:45 UTC https://padlet.com/rojasve22/pu3syaz24oivac7w/wish/1084214883 rojasve22 https://padlet.com/rojasve22/pu3syaz24oivac7w/wish/1084216113 Orville and Wilbur Wright were inventors who invented the first practical airplane in 1903 in North Carolina. These two inventors happened to be brothers as well. These two studied aviation and mechanics and later created an invention that changed transportation forever. ]]> 2021-01-13 17:53:59 UTC https://padlet.com/rojasve22/pu3syaz24oivac7w/wish/1084216113 rojasve22 https://padlet.com/rojasve22/pu3syaz24oivac7w/wish/1084216915 Elisha Otis is the inventor who created the modern elevator in 1852 while he was working in New York. From his excellent invention, he created an elevator company that is very small today. He also had a small machine shop and worked in many factories. ]]> 2021-01-13 17:54:09 UTC https://padlet.com/rojasve22/pu3syaz24oivac7w/wish/1084216915 rojasve22 https://padlet.com/rojasve22/pu3syaz24oivac7w/wish/1084218396 George Eastman was an inventor who created cameras in the 1880s in New York. He first created the Kodak, a box camera with 100 exposures. From his success, the Eastman Kodak became the largest American company in the industry. It is still relevant today. ]]> 2021-01-13 17:54:26 UTC https://padlet.com/rojasve22/pu3syaz24oivac7w/wish/1084218396