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On August 28, 1859, George Bissell and Edwin L. Drake made the first successful use of a drilling rig.
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On May 10, 1869, a golden spike was driven at Promontory, Utah, signaling the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States.
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The Ohio businessman John D. Rockefeller entered the oil industry in the 1870's, and founded Standard Oil with some other business partners.
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On March 7, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for the telephone; three days later, he and associate Thomas Watson successfully tested their invention.
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May 10, 1877, President Rutherford B. Hayes has the White House's first telephone installed in the mansion s telegraph room.
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Edison made the first public demonstration of his incandescent light bulb on December 31, 1879, in Menlo Park
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It was inaugurated on Sunday, November 18, 1883, also called "The Day of Two Noons", when each railroad station clock was reset as standard-time noon was reached within each time zone.
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The Richmond Union Passenger Railway, in Richmond, Virginia, was the first practical electric trolley system, and set the pattern for most subsequent electric trolley systems around the world.
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The Sherman Antitrust Act is a landmark federal statute in the history of United States antitrust law passed by Congress in 1890 under the presidency of Benjamin Harrison.
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Carnegie Steel Company was a steel producing company created by Andrew Carnegie, in order to manage businesses at steel mills in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area in the late 19th century.
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Morgan and attorney Elbert H. Gary founded U.S. Steel on March 2, 1901 by combining Andrew Carnegie's Carnegie Steel Company with Gary's Federal Steel Company and William Henry "Judge" Moore's National Steel Company for $492 million.
