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The first oil well was drilled along a remote creek in Pennsylavnia, by George Bissell and Edwin L. Drake.
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The Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads met in Promontory, Utah and there was a ceremonial final spike to symbolize the end of the railroad.
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Rockefeller formed the Standard Oil Company of Ohio with his younger brother William, Henry Flagler, and other men.
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Three days after patenting his invention, he made his first successful telephone call.
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President Rutherford B. Hayes had the first telephone installed in the White House.
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Thomas Edison created the first incandescent light bulb. When he first tried to make this light bulb he created one that can lasts about 13.5 hours.
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On November 18, 1883 four standard time zones where created for the Continental United States that would create a departure and arrival schedule.
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The first electric trolley line began working in Richmond Virginia. It was also created by Frank Julian Sprague.
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The Sherman Antitrust Act was the first Federal act that made it illegal to practice monopolistic bussinesses.
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Andrew Carneige creates his steel company, Carneigie's company grew as a steel empire, it brought in a large amount of profits for the comopany.
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J.P. Morgan forms U.S. Steel which became the first billion dollar corporation in American history.
