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The first successful use of a drilling rig on a well to produce oil, at a site on Oil Creek near Titusville, Pennsylvania.
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s the first transcontinental railroad in the United States was completed. The railroad had long been a dream for people living in the American West.
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American inventor Alexander Graham Bell tested his telephone in 1876, calling his assistant to say "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you.
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Hayes has the White House's first telephone installed in the mansion s telegraph room
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his first attempt at this design was a bulb that lasts about 13.5 hours before burning out. later it extended to life of the bulb to 40 hours.
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Four standard time zones for the United States were introduced.
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this was the first practical trolley but was not the first attempt.
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first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices.
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created in the late 19th century in the Pittsburgh Pennsylvania area by Andrew Carnegie.
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it was founded in 1901. At the beginning of the 20th century, a number of businessmen were involved in forming the United States Steel Corporation.
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The Ohio businessman John D. Rockefeller entered the oil industry in the 1860s and in 1870, and founded Standard Oil with some other business partners.
