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Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for the telephone. This invention revolutionized the way people communicate with one another.
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George Bissell and Edwin L. Drake made the first successful use of a drilling rig on a well drilled especially to produce oil.This was at a site on Oil Creek near Titusville, Pennsylvania.
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A golden spike was driven in Utah signaling the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States.
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President Rutherford B. Hayes has the White House's first telephone installed in the mansion s telegraph room.
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In November 1879, Edison filed a patent for an electric lamp with a carbon filament.
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the new railroad lines needed a new time plan that would offer a uniform train schedule for departures and arrivals. Four standard time zones for the continental United States were introduced
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This was the first practical electric trolley system which set the pattern for trolley systems around the world. It is an IEEE milestone in engineering.
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The first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices. This was also the first measure passed by the U.S. Congress to prohibit trusts.
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The company formed in 1892 and was subsequently sold in 1901 in one of the largest ever business transactions of the early 20th century.
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J. P. Morgan and attorney Elbert H. Gary founded U.S. Steel by combining Andrew Carnegie's Carnegie Steel Company with Gary's Federal Steel Company
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Supreme Court ordered the dissolution of Standard Oil Company. This ruled it was in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act. Then, John D. Rockefeller founded Standard Oil with some other business partners.
