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Twenty innovators who changed the 20th century
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Amadeo Peter Giannini (born 1870, died 1949)
American banker.
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Charles E. Merrill (born 1885, died 1956)
American financier.
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David Sarnoff (born 1891, died 1971)
Russian-American engineer and businessman who founded the NBC radio network.
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Henry Ford (born 1863, died 1947)
American industrialist. An early champion of assembly-line manufacturing.
- He produced affordable cars, paid hogh wages and created a middle class in America
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Juan T. Trippe (born 1899, died 1981)
U.S. Navy bomber pilot in World War I. Founder of Pan American Airways.
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Pete Rozelle (died 1996)
National Football League commissioner, 1960-89.
- Made football as show biz
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Sam Walton (born 1918, died 1992)
American businessman.
- He changed the way Big Business is run
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Thomas J. Watson, Jr. (born 1914, died 1993)
American industrialist.
- Introduced IBM''s Revolutionary System/360
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Walt Disney (born 1901, died 1966)
American pioneer of cinematic animation.
- Ruler of the Magic Kingdom
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Walter Reuther (born 1907, died 1970)
American labor leader.
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William Levitt
- Suburban Legend who created suburbia
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William H. ''Bill'' Gates III (born 1955)
Co-founder of the Microsoft Corporation.
- Innovator in the software industry
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Louis B. Mayer
Canadian studio executive and producer.
- Founded Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) in Hollywood
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Akio Morita (born 1921, died 1999)
Japanese scientist and businessman
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Willis Carrier (born 1876, died 1950)
American inventor
- He invented air conditioning
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Charles Lucky Luciano (born 1897, died 1962)
- Italian criminal mastermind
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Leo Burnett (born 1891, died 1971)
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Ray Kroc (born 1902, died 1984)
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Stephen Bechtel (born 1900, died 1989)
Twenty innovators who changed the 20th century
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Estée Lauder (born 1910)
- Founder of the Estée Lauder companies
