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Credited with being one of the inventors of modern steel production, through the process of injecting air into molten iron.
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Edwin Drake was the first man to ever successfullly drill oil.
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The National Labor Union was the first national labor federation in the United States. It was led by William H. Sylvis.
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Kansas eased the law in 1867, allowing Texas cattle to be driven through "the first guide meridian west from the sixth principal meridian."
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An American inventor who invented the first practical typewriter and the QWERTY keyboard still in use today.[3] He was also a newspaper publisher and Wisconsin politician.
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Promontory Summit had been agreed as the point where the two railheads would officially meet following meetings in Washington, D.C. in April 1869.
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George westinghouse invented the railway air brake in New York.
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Standard Oil Co. Inc. was an American oil producing, transporting, refining, and marketing company.
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The strike started in Martinsburg, West Virginia, in response to the cutting of wages for the third time in a year by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.
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The Phonograph was invented for the recording of sound.
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The Knights of Labor was one of the largest American labor organizations of the 19th century, but Powderly was a bad administrator and couldn't keep it under control.
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The AFL was the largest union grouping in the United States for the first half of the 20th century, even after the creation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations
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A labor protest that quickly turned into a riot in Chicago
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The Statue of Liberty, a gift to the United States from the people of France, was officially unveiled to the public by President Grover Cleveland.
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An article that describes the responsibility of philanthropy by the new upper class of self-made rich.
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A law that allowed the President of the United States to set aside forest reserves from the land in the public domain.
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The Act makes it a misdemeanor to discharge refuse matter of any kind into the navigable waters, or tributaries thereof, of the United States without a permit.
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A Scottish-American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry
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It was the worlds largest munitional corporation.
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