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George Mortimer Pullman (March 3, 1831 – October 19, 1897) was an American engineer and industrialist. He designed and manufactured the Pullman sleeping car and ...
Workers leave the Pullman Palace Car Works in 1893. The Pullman Company, [1] founded by George Pullman, was a manufacturer of railroad cars in the mid-to-late 19th century through the first half of the 20th century, during the boom of railroads in the United States.
The Pullman attendants, regardless of their true name, were traditionally referred to as "George" by the travelers, the name of the company's founder, George Pullman. The Pullman company was the largest employer of African Americans in the United States. [8] Railway porters fought for political recognition and were eventually unionized.
The sprawling Pullman company factory closed in 1982. The National Park Services’ visitor center features exhibits on worker demonstrations that helped plant the seeds of the modern labor movement.
The sleeping car did not become commercially practical until 1857 when George Pullman invented the Pullman sleeping car. [82] 1839 Vulcanized rubber. Vulcanization refers to a specific curing process of rubber involving heat and the addition of sulfur or other equivalent curatives. It is a chemical process in which polymer molecules are linked ...
centering on 111th Street and Cottage Grove Avenue in Chicago, the district extends east to I-94. The first planned industrial town in the nation, Pullman was founded in 1880 by George Pullman, inventor of the railroad sleeping car, for his workers. In 1894 violence connected with a strike over wage cuts caused President Cleveland to send ...
George Pullman (1831–1897), U.S. – Pullman sleep wagon Michael I. Pupin (1858–1935), Serbia – pupinization (loading coils), tunable oscillator Tivadar Puskás (1844–1893), Hungary – telephone exchange
George Pullman – Inventor of the Pullman sleeper (a luxury sleeping car) and founder of the Pullman Company; Leland Stanford – One of the Big Four co-founders of the Central Pacific Railroad, president of the Southern Pacific Railroad, governor of California, and founder of Stanford University