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A typewriter is a mechanical or electromechanical machine for writing in characters similar to those produced by printer's movable type by means of keyboard-operated types striking a ribbon to transfer ink or carbon impressions onto paper.
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Alexander Graham Bell is the father of the telephone.
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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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he oil rush began in Titusville, Pennsylvania, in the Oil Creek Valley when Colonel Edwin L. Drake struck "rock oil" there.
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The homestead acts were several united states laws that gave people land at little or no cost.
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Apolitical action movement that sought to improve working conditions through legislative reform rather than through collective barganing.
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The railway air break is a railway brake power braking system with compressed air as the operating medium created by George Westinghouse.
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The First Transcontinental Railroad in the United States was built in the 1860s, linking the well developed railway network of the Eastern coast with rapidly growing California.
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Standard Oil Co. Inc. was an American oil producing, transporting, refining, and marketing company established by John D Rockefeller.
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Labor unions were not involved; these were spontaneous outbreaks in numerous cities of violence against railroads
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Thomas Edison invented the first phonograph, thanking him for the secret to recording sound.
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Thomas Alva Edison, although he could be said to have created the first commercially practical incandescent light.
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A labor protest near Chicagos haymarket square turnded into a riot someone threw a bomb at police that caused the death of at least 8 people.
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Collassal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty island in New York Harbor in New York City.
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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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It was an industrial lockout and strike.
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A nationwide railroad strike against the pullman company.
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The Nations largest steel company founded by Andrew Carnegie, sold to JP Motgan for $480 million.
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Surpreme court ordered the dissolution of standard oil company, ruling it was in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act.
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Article written by Andrew Carnegie in June of 1889 that describes the responsibility of philanthropy by the new upper class of selfmade rich.
