Business Advancements

By nikkib29
  • Alexander Graham Bell

    Alexander Graham Bell

    Alexander Graham Bell receives the first telephone patent.

  • Stock Market Crashes

    Known as Black Monday.
  • Chocolate Bar Invented

    Chocolate Bar Invented

    Candy maker Milton Hershey sells his first milk chocolate bars.
  • Pepsi-Cola

    Pepsi-Cola

    Caleb Bradham invents Pepsi-Cola.
  • J.P. Morgan

    J.P. Morgan

    Combines ten companies to create United States Steel Corporation.
  • Airplane

    Airplane

    Orville and Wilbur Wright had the first flight in history.

  • Jp Morgan and other bankers help the economc crisis

  • Ford Cars

    Ford Cars

    The Ford Model T is introduced by Henry Ford.

  • Federal Reserve Act

  • Henry Ford's Assembly Line

  • Walt Disney

    Walt Disney

    With his brother Roy, Walt Disney forms Disney Brothers Studio, which later becomes the Walt Disney Company.

  • Stock Market crashes

  • 10,000 US Banks Fail

  • FDR's New Deals Act

  • WWII ends the depression

  • Electric Programmable Computer

    Electric Programmable Computer

    The Colossus was the first electric programmable computer, developed by Tommy Flowers.

  • Korean War - New Government Debt

  • Unemployment Assistance Act

  • Walmart

    Walmart

    Sam Walton opens the first Walmart in Rogers, Arkansas.

  • Johnson signs the Medicare and Medicaid Act

  • Starbucks

    Starbucks

    First Starbucks opens in Seattle, Washington.
  • Bill Gates

    Bill Gates

    Bill Gates and Paul Allen form Microsoft to develop software for personal computers.
  • Steve Jobs

    Steve Jobs

    Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak form the Apple Computer Company and sell their first personal computers.

  • The Web has 130 sites

  • The Twin Towers collapse after attack

  • Wi-fi is incorpated in Intel

  • Economic enters Recession

  • Country Debt rises to 11 trillion while the deficit rises to 1.4 trillion

  • Health Care Reform

  • Congress passes a bill to increase the debt