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On August 28, 1859, George Bissell and Edwin F. Drake made the first successful oil production in Titusville, Pennsylvania.
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The Transcontinental Railroad is completed in 1869 and is 1,912 miles long and connects Omaha, Nebraska, Iowa and the Pacific Coast in San Francisco.
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Supreme Court ordered the dissolution of Standard Oil Company, ruling it was in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act. John D. Rockefeller entered the oil industry in the 1860s and in 1870, and found the company with some other business partners.
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Carnegie Steel Company was a steel producing company primarily created by Andrew Carnegie and several close associates, to manage businesses at steel mills in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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On March 7, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for the telephone.
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President Rutherford B. Hayes has the White House's first telephone installed in the mansions telegraph room.
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Thomas Edison perfects the first commercially practical incandescent light bulb.
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Four standard time zones for the continental United States were introduced on November 18, 1883.
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The Richmond Union Passenger Railway, in Richmond, Virginia, was the first practical electric trolley (tram) system, and set the pattern for most subsequent electric trolley systems around the world.
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The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was the first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices. The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 was the first measure passed by the U.S. Congress to prohibit trusts.
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United States Steel corporation, leading U.S. producer of steel and related products, founded in 1901.
