Great steel works of Pittsburgh founded by Andrew Carnegie, _Scot_, assisted by William Jones, _Welsh_ ... iron and steel industries of Pueblo, Colorado, established by Daniel Jones, _Welsh_ ... famous pioneer organ builder, Matthias Moller, a _Dane_ ... pianos and other instruments by Steinway, Knabe, Weber, Wurlitzer, Gemünder, _Germans_ ... steel manufactured by Charles Schwab, _German_ ... sugar produced by Havemeyer, _German_ ... food products by Heinz and Fleischmann, _Germans_ ... world-noted cymbals made by Zildijian, _Armenian_ ... airplane builders are Igor Sigorsky, _Russian_; Bellanca, _Italian_; Douglas, _Scot_; Boeing, _German_; and Curtiss, _English-German_. _Communication_ [Illustration] The telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell, _Scot_ ... the telegraph was invention of Joseph Henry and Samuel Morse, _Scotch-Irish_ ... steam-cylinder printing press, making possible our great daily newspapers, was brain child of Robert Hoe, _English_ ... Erie Canal built by DeWitt Clinton, _Irish-Netherlander_ ... long distance telephone and wireless telegraphy made possible by Michael Pupin, _Yugoslav_ ... inventor of wireless switch was Fritz Lowenstein, _German Jew_ ... new device for transmitting radio photographs by Arthur Korn, _German Jew_ ... loud speaker invented by Peter Jensen, _Dane_ ... Zworykin, _Russian_, pioneered in television ... first printing press imported to California by Agustin Zamorana, _Spaniard_. _Commerce_ One of the largest cotton gins owned by Scott Bond, _Negro_ ... our leading industrialists include Astor, Vanderbilt, and Rockefeller, _Germans_ ... Julius Rosenwald, Chicago mail-order executive, _German Jew_ ... Alfred Knudsen, _Dane_, automobile manufacturing executive. Leading rug merchants are Karaghuesian, Gulbenkian, Kelekian, and Pushman, _Armenians_ ... leading linen and lace merchants are Mallouk, Kassab, Bardwill, Jabara, Mamary, and Boutross, _Syrians_ ... largest raiser of orchids and specialist in cacti is J. A. Manda, _Yugoslav_ ... first American circus opened in Baraboo, Wisconsin, in 1854, by Ringling Brothers, _German_ ... Virginia tobacco trade founded by Augustine Herrman, _Czech_ ... gas first introduced in 1830 by Edward Jones, _Welsh_, in Boston. _Mining_ [Illustration] First oil well drilled at Titusville, Pa., by Edwin Drake, _English_, in 1859.... In Texas, oil was first struck by Anthony F. Lucas, _Yugoslav_ ... coal in Pennsylvania first discovered by William Jones, _Welsh_ ... pioneer miner of Colorado was Vaso Chakovic, _Yugoslav_ ... first California gold found on ranch of John Sutter, _German-Swiss_ ... eminent mining industrialists include Simon and Daniel Guggenheim, _Swiss Jews_, and Adolph Lewisohn, _German Jew_. _Banking_