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The first oil boom in the US.
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encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land.
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The first typewriter to be commercially successful was invented in 1868 by Americans Christopher Latham Sholes
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The Bessemer process was the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass-production of steel from molten pig iron prior to the open hearth furnace.
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The Westinghouse Air Brake Company (WABCO) was founded on September 28, 1869 by George Westinghouse in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Earlier in the year he had invented the railway air brake in New York state.
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The National Labor Union (NLU) was the first national labor federation in the United States.