Tod Ruhstaller
Tod Ruhstaller
convert great viable
He was able to convert a great idea into a commercially viable machine.
labor opened tremendous vast
These were tremendous labor-saving devices. It opened up vast new territories.
boom grain introduce longer saw settle variety
We saw a boom in agriculture. You no longer had to settle for grain crops, now you could introduce a whole new variety of crops.
few miners
Very few miners got rich. It was the businessmen who made the money.