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Major Players In The Industrial Revolution

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I think the Industrial Revolution can best be summed up in the words of Kevin Shultz when he said “ The world that had consisted of small farms, artisans’ workshops, and small factories transformed into a full-scale industrial society” ( Shultz, 2013, pp 291). The major players in the railroad industry were Leland Stanford, Collis Huntington, Charles Crocker and Mark Hopkins. The steel industry was primarily run by Andrew Carnegie. While John D. Rockefeller had a monopoly on the oil industry using his business strategy now know as horizontal integration. Thomas Edison was hard at work in the technology front perfecting the light bulb, which was among his one thousand and ninety-three patents. Finally, Jay Gould and J.P.Morgan put their heads
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