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__//**Andrew Carnegie:**//__ The leading force in the American steel industry. He is remembered as industrialist, millionaire, and philanthropist. He donated fortune to education and peace. He was responsible for almost 25 percent of American iron and steel productions. By the time he died he gave away $350,695,653.

__//**John D. Rockefeller:**//__ American industrialist and philanthropist. He revolutionized the petroleum industry. He kept stock and as gasoline grew in importance, his wealth soared and he became the world's richest man and first American Billionaire. Standard oil gradually gained almost complete control of refining and marketing in the United States. Rockefeller formed standard oil of Ohio, which rapidly became the most profitable refiner in Cleveland. Standard oil had grown to become one of the largest shippers of oil and kerosene in the country.

__//**Henry Ford:**//__ Was the American founder of the Ford motor company and father of modern assembly lines used in mass production. He made a lot of ford automobiles using the assembly line. Henry Ford's intense commitment to lowering costs results in many technical and business including a system that put a dealership in every city in North America. He kept labor unions out of Bethlehem steel.