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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
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A golden spike was driven at Promontory, Utah which signaled the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States
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Formed the company with his brother William, Henry Flager, and another group of men. He was the president and largest shareholder.
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Alexander Graham Bell’s invention revolutionized the way people talked to each other. The device would allow for people to instantly talk to each other over long distances.
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President at the time, Rutherford B. Hayes had the first telephone installed to the White House in the telegraph room. Hayes liked the new technology and was happy about the installation.
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Thomas Edison worked for years with over 3,000 designs of a light bulb before finally filing for a patent on this day.
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Workers of the railroads needed a new time plan in order to create an organized train schedule. Four standard time zones were created for the United States.
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This Richmond System was first designed by Frank Julian Sprague. After a lot of trial and error, it finally began regularly working with 10 streetcars. Electric power was supplied in the overhead of the streetcar.
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This was the first Federal Act that did not allow large monopoly business practices. This was also the first act passed by Congress to ban trusts.
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J.P. Morgan and attorney Elbert H. Gary founded U.S. Steel by combining Andrew Carnegie’s Steel Company with Gary’s Federal Steel Company and William Henry Moore’s National Steel Company, worth $492 million.
