| A | B |
| Thomas Edison | Built a power plant that supplied electrcity to New York. |
| Samuel Morse | telegraph communications |
| Edwin Drake | proved you could pump crude oil from the ground |
| George Westinghouse | built power system that sent power across many miles |
| Alexander Graham Bell | telephone |
| Charles & Frank Duryea | used gas engine to power 1st motorcar in US |
| Henry Ford | Model T & 1st assembly line |
| Orville & Wilbur Wright | built airplane, used small gas engine |
| Henry Bessmer | process to manufacture steel |
| Andrew Carnegie | richest man in world, had new technology used in steel mills |
| Cornelius Vanderbuilt | made his money in shipping and railroads |
| John D. Rockerfeller | created Standard Oil Company |
| Leland Stanford | one of "Big Four", buit Central Pacific Railroad |