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At that time Congress appropriated $75,000 to improve navigation on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers by removing sandbars, snags, and other obstacles.
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He is credited with being one of the inventors of modern steel production, through the process of injecting air into molten .
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He was hired by the Seneca Oil Company to investigate suspected oil deposits in Titusville, Pennsylvania, and was hte first sucess in drilling for oil.
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it was a political-action movement that from 1866 to 1873 sought to improve working conditions through legislative reform rather than through collective bargaining
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He witness a train crash and then invented the air break which was a brake worked by air pressure.
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He and a partner worked on the first comercially accepted typewriter, and recieved patents.
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Promontory Summit where the First Transcontinental Railroad in the United States was officially completed on May 10, 1869.
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This was an American oil producing, transporting, refining, and marketing company, and it was the largest oil refiner in the world of its time. It was dissolved in 1911.
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19th-century entrepreneur famous for promoting the transport of Longhorn cattle from Texas to the eastern United States.
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The strike tarted on July 14 in Martinsburg, West Virginia, in response to the cutting of wages for the third time in a year by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (B&O), and striking workers would not allow any of the trains, mainly freight trains, to roll until this third wage cut was revoked.
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While working on the telephone and telegraph, Edison invented the phonograph which records sound using tinfoil.
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Powderly saw the Knights as an educational tool to uplift the workingman, and he downplayed strikes.
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He promoted thorough organization and collective bargaining to secure shorter hours and higher wages, the first essential steps, he believed, to emancipating labor.
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This was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration in Chicago.
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"The Gospel of Wealth", is an article written by Andrew Carnegie in June of 1889 that describes the responsibility of philanthropy by the new upper class of self-made rich.
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This was 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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He built Pittsburgh's Carnegie Steel Company, which he sold to J.P. Morgan in 1901 for $480 million, creating the U.S. Steel Corporation.
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On May 15, 1911, the Supreme Court ordered the dissolution of Standard Oil Company, ruling it was in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act.
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President Grover Cleveland dedicated the Statue of Liberty, a gift from France, in New York Harbor.
