WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
ROBBER BARONS
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George Westinghouse
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George A. Custer
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George Pullman
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George Jones
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Detailed explanation-1: -He decided to focus on the passenger experience. Partnering with Benjamin Field, a friend and former New York state senator, he decided to build a sleeper that was not just comfortable. He wanted luxury.
Detailed explanation-2: -George Mortimer Pullman was an influential industrialist of the nineteenth century and the founder of the Pullman Palace Car Company. His innovations brought comfort and luxury to railroad travel in the 1800s with the introduction of sleeping cars, dining cars, and parlor cars.
Detailed explanation-3: -Pullman developed his first railroad sleeping car, the Pullman sleeper or “palace car” in 1864. They were designed after the packet boats that traveled the Erie Canal of his youth.
Detailed explanation-4: -The sleeping car or sleeper (often wagon-lit) is a railway passenger car that can accommodate all passengers in beds of one kind or another, for the purpose of sleeping. George Pullman was the American innovator of the sleeper car.