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| Steel entrepreneur, philanthropist, began as textile mill worker, then telegraph messenger, then clerk. Invested money. |
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| Oil and railroad entrepreneur, invented trusts in order to cut out competition. |
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| Railroad businessman who founded Stanford, key investor in transcontinental railroad, also Republican politician. |
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| Founder of the AFL, leader of the cigarmaker's union, believed that employers would bargain only with skilled workers. |
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| Inventor who created lightbulb, phonograph, motion picture camera. |
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| Inventor of the telephone. |
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| Supposed first inventors of powered aircraft. |
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| First female awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Supported women's suffrage and world peace. |
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| Samuel Clemens, Missouri writer, also riverboat pilot. Witty but bad with money. |
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| Shipping and railroad entrepreneur. |
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| Banker, art collector, and financier. Merged Carnegie Steel, General Electric, etc. |
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| Inventor, made Bessemer Process for steel. First inexpensive steel method. |
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| Businessman, laid down transatlantic cable. |
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