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US Business History

  • Otis elevator company

    Otis elevator company
    Elisha Otis created a saftey elevator that was placed into the empire state builing. Almost everybuilding you go to there is an elevator that enables us to go from floor to floor faster.
  • Period: to

    civil war

  • John D. Rockafeller

    John D. Rockafeller
    founded the standard oil company
  • Coca cola

    Coca cola
    "Coca-Cola Company in the United States since March 27, 1944). Originally intended as a patent medicine when it was invented in the late 19th century by John Pemberton, Coca-Cola was bought out by businessman Asa Griggs Candler, whose marketing tactics led Coke to its dominance of the world soft-drink market throughout the 20th century." (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola)
  • Wright Co.

    Wright Co.
    wright Company Known for the invention of airplanes by Orville Wright and his brother Wilbur. "Created 120 airplanes from their many model ideas." (Wikipedia.com)
  • End of prohabition

    End of prohabition
    Prohabition banned alchol and introduced the black market for illegal alchol
  • McDonalds

    McDonalds
    27 companies that changed the world 35,000 + world wide locations and has a revenue of about 28.1057 billion dollars.
  • Sony

    Sony
    In 1979 they created the walkman. A portable CD player that had headphones so you could listento your music privatley. Sonys walkman jumpstarted portable music ideas and soon after came the Ipod.
  • Google

    Google
    Google Created by Larry Page "Google is a United States-headquartered, multinational corporation specializing in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, and software" (Wikipedia.com)
  • 911

    911
    A terorist attack on the US by alqueda. Destoryed the world trade centers where many buisnnesses were located.
  • Facebook

    Facebook
    Mark Zuckerberg created in 2004, started up the revolution of social media.