V.I.P of the American industrialization

Richard Warren Sears

• Richard started selling watches to farmers and store owners so they could get there goods from the trains at the time of arrival.

Cornelius Vanderbilt

• Cornelius owed a steam boat company.
• He bought a lot of businesses also in the steam boat business.
• Cornelius took over the steam boat business.

John D. Rockefeller

• Founder of the Standard Oil company.
• He controlled 90% of all the oil in the U.S. at his peak.
• He knocked out all competition.

Danforth Armour

• Started a meat packing company.
• Danforth had refrigerated rail cars and a assembly line technique.
• First company to sell canned meat.
• Started a glue making business.

J. P. Morgan

• a bank owner
• He took over troubled businesses and reorganized them.
• His goal was to buy multiple steel businesses and mining companies as well.

The invention that has the most impact in my life would have to be the rail road systems. The rail road systems move everything from place to place and then the goods are then placed on trucks to be taken to the stores.