Lesson Plan George Pullman: His Impact on the Railroad Industry, Labor, and American Life in the Nineteenth Century Economics, Government and Civics, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math 9, 10, 11, 12 Background 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...
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