Gustavus Franklin Swift (1839–1903), manufacturer and innovator
He came to the Chicago meatpacking scene in 1875, when the business was slow and arduous. He fashioned a massive yet efficiently integrated system of livestock transportation, slaughtering, and processing that used highly mechanized killing and dismembering techniques, as well as refrigeration of butchering premises and rail cars, to bring cheap, fresh meat and thriftily preserved byproducts to consumers everywhere.
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