Sentences with phrase «at railroad magnate»
In 1878, he started making pictures at railroad magnate Leland Stanford's horse farm in Palo Alto, California, where he developed an electronic shutter that enabled exposures as fast as one - thousandth of a second.
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This magnificent structure, which opened in 1902 at a cost of $ 200,000 (huge in its time), was considered to be the «finest railroad hotel on earth» and was hotel magnate Fred Harvey's finest lodging creation.
The opposing forces include politicians with careers at stake, liquor companies, railroad magnates, and a lot of racists who don't want black women voting.