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George Bissell and Edwin L. Drake drilled the first successful well for producing oil in Titusville, Pennsylvania.
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The Transcontinental Railroad was completed in Promontory, Utah. This was the first railroad connecting the East and the West and had been a dream of many Americans for awhile.
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John D. Rockefeller eliminated all oil competition when he founded the Standard Oil Company of Ohio, which refined oil.
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Alexander Graham Bell patented his telephone that made it possible to transmit actual voices instead of morse code.
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President Rutherford B. Hayes got the first telephone installed in the telegraph room of the White House.
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The "Wizard of Menlo Park" perfects his invention of the lightbulb, that would change America's households and businesses forever.
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Four standard time zones were introduce to the United States that helped officers plan a uniform train schedule.
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In Richmond, VA, the first electric trolley was made in Richmond Union Passenger Railway built by Frank J. Sprague.
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This is a landmark federal statute in the history of United States antitrust law. It was passed by Congress under the presidency of Benjamin Harrison.
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Andrew Carnegie forms a steel company in Pennsylvania that bought out steel rivals, iron mines, railroad and steamship lines, and warehouses.
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J.P. Morgan bought steel companies and forms the United States Steel Company, which is worth more then a billion dollars.
