Business from Civil war to Present

End of Civil War

Apr 9, 1865

Civil War finaly ended

Transcontinental Railroad

May 10, 1869

Made it so that products could be sold more easily through the U.S. Expanded the market

Joseph Glidden Creates Barbed Wire

Nov 1, 1874

Made it so that farmers caddle was safe from being stolen or killed.

Ford Creates Model T

Jul 15, 1903

Made traveling a lot easier and slowly got rid of hourse and buggy transportation.

First Flight

Dec 17, 1903

The Wright brothers flew the first engined plane in Kitty Hawk North Carolina. Would make transporting goods much faster.

UPS

Aug 28, 1907

Made shipping and handeling so much easier. Companies could rely on UPS to get their product to their customer without a hassel.

GM

Sep 1, 1908

General Motor car company was started. Reveloutionized the car industry, made buying cars in different colors possible.

Stock Market Crashed

Oct 29, 1929

Stock market crashed which led to the Great Depression, which we would only get out of by going into war.

NASA Founded

Jul 29, 1958

Governent funded program which would take the first American to the moon.

Microsoft

Apr 4, 1975

Bill Gates creates Microsoft. Makes it possible for businesses to have softwate systems on computers and to be able to use computers

Apple

Apr 1, 1976

Steve Jobs starts up apple in his garage. Without Apple the tecnology world may not be what it is today.

Amazon

Jul 5, 1994

Jeff Bezos created amazon in his garage. Started as a company that sold books, now they sell just about anything, even a phone.

Google

Sep 4, 1998

Larry Page and Sergey Brin created one of the most important search engines ever. Made looking up anything you can think of a possibility.

9/11

Sep 11, 2001

One of the worst attacks on U.S ground in history. Led to airlines losing money due to lack of interest in air travel.

Facebook

Feb 4, 2004

Mark Zuckerburg creates the social network site called Facebook. Would make advertising businesses a much easier process.

First Generation iPhone

Jun 29, 2007

Apple changed the cellphone world on this day, made every other cellphone company step there game up especially Samsung.

Recession

Oct 4, 2008

Stocks were down, housing market down, people cutting back on spending.

Xbox One

Nov 22, 2013

Microsoft once again sets the pace for the gaming industry.

iPhone 6

Sep 19, 2014

Apple steps up the cellphone world again.