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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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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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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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The first large-scale effort to drive cattle from Texas to the nearest railhead for shipment to Chicago occurred in 1866, when many Texas ranchers banded together to drive their cattle to the closest point that railroad tracks reached, which at that time was Sedalia, Missouri.
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Modern trains rely upon a fail-safe air brake system that is based upon a design patented by George Westinghouse. an Air brake is a type of friction brake for vehicles in which compressed air pressing on a piston is used to apply the pressure to the brake pad needed to stop the vehicle.
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He invented the first typewriter that was commercially successful.
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On May 10 in anticipation of the ceremony, Union Pacific's No. 119 and Central Pacific's No. 60 locomotives were drawn up face-to-face on Promontory Summit, separated only by the width of a single tie
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by the early 1880s, Standard Oil company controlled some 90 percent of U.S. refineries and pipelines
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It started in response to the cutting of wages for the third time in a year by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (B&O). Striking workers would not allow any of the trains, mainly freight trains, to roll until this third wage cut was revoked.
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an early sound-reproducing machine that used cylinders to record as well as reproduce sound. It was his favorite invention.
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a nationwide labor union whose goal was to organize all workers, skilled and unskilled, into one large union united for workers' rights and economic and social reform. He opposed the immigration of Chinese wokrers.
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It was a national federation of labor unions in the United States. He was the first and longest-serving president of the AFL.
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he Haymarket Riot was viewed a setback for the organized labor movement in America, which was fighting for such rights as the eight-hour workday. At the same time, the men convicted in connection with the riot were viewed by many in the labor movement as martyrs.
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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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It 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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He was getting close to retirement so he sold steel to JP morgan and he created the US Steel Corporation.
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the Supreme Court ordered the dissolution of Standard Oil Company, ruling it was in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act.
