Industrialization

First Steel Plow

Dec 5, 1837

John Deere

First Inter-city Electromagnetic Telegraph Line

May 5, 1844

SAmuel F.B. Morse

Bessemer Process

Dec 5, 1855

Henry Bessemer invented a new way to make steel by taking carbon out of iron.

First Safe Elevator

Dec 5, 1857

Elisha Otis

Railroad Sleeping Car

Dec 5, 1857

George Pullman

Typewriter

Dec 5, 1867

Christopher Sholes

Knights of Labor

Dec 1, 1869

One of the most important labor unions in America. Worked to gain rights for workers.

First Transcontinental Railroad

Dec 1, 1869

It joined the Eastern and Western parts of the U.S.

Standard Oil Company

Dec 5, 1870

John D. Rockefeller

Barbed Wire

Dec 5, 1874

Joseph Glidden

Opened First Steel Plant

Dec 5, 1875

Andrew Carnegie started the mass production of steel.

5 and 10 Store

Dec 5, 1875

Frank Woolworth-Sold items for 5 or 10 cents to draw people into his store.

Telephone

Mar 10, 1876

Alexander Graham Bell

Electric Light/Light Bulb

Dec 5, 1879

Thomas Edison

Haymarket Riot

May 4, 1886

During a rally to support strikers a bomb was thrown into the crowd.

American Federation of Labor

Dec 8, 1886

One of the first craft unions.

Kodak Camera

Dec 5, 1888

George Esatman

Sherman Antitrust Act

Dec 1, 1890

First Federal group to limit cartels and monopolies.

Ellis Island

Dec 5, 1892

Immigration center on New York harbor thet got mostly European immigrants. Had fairly good conditions.

First Sucssesful Flight

Dec 5, 1903

Orville and Wilbur Wright

Angel Island

Dec 5, 1910

Immigration center on coast of California that got mostly asian immigrates. Not as good conditions as Elise Island and had more strict requirements.