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Kelly developed a steel maing process and used the help of Bessemer to patent the process/product.
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The Drake Well in Titusville, Pa., became the first well in the United States to strike oil, sparking the rise of America’s multibillion-dollar oil industry
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The NLU was formed to organize skilled and unskilled laborers, farmers, and reformers into a coalition that would pressure Congress to pass a law limiting the workday to eight hours.
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He opened the Abilene Trail (in Kansas) through Indian Territory from Texas to transport cattle.
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Sholes invented a machine which mimicked the appearance of typeset pages by impressing one inked character at a time onto paper and developed the keyboard "qwerty" system.
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Westinghouse's air brake system revolutionized the railroad industry, making braking safer and permitting trains to travel at higher speeds.
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Transcontinental railroad travel was now possible for the first time in U.S. history.
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In 1870, he established Standard Oil, which by the early 1880s controlled some 90 percent of U.S. refineries and pipelines
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Edison created a machine with two needles: one for recording and one for playback.
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The Great Railroad Strike was caused by wage cutbacks and led to more violence/riots and the use of militia to reopen rails.
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Powderly dispensed with the earlier rules of secrecy and committed the organization to seeking the eight-hour day, abolition of child labor, equal pay for equal work, and political reforms including the graduated income tax.
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His three principles: advocated craft or trades unionism, believed in a pure-and-simple unionism that focused primarily on economic rather than political reform as the best way of securing workers' rights and welfare, he urged labor to follow a course of "political nonpartisanship."
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It was a labor protest rally that occurred in Chicago which turned into a riot after someone threw a bomb at police.
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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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Industrialist and wealthy businessman Andrew Carnegie argued that individual capitalists were duty bound to play a broader cultural and social role and thus improve the world.
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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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Carnegie became the richest man in the world.
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The Supreme Court ordered the dissolution of Standard Oil Company, ruling it was in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act
