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The key principle is removal of impurities from the iron by oxidation with air being blown through the molten iron. The oxidation also raises the temperature of the iron mass and keeps it molten.
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No one belived that "Drake's Folly" would ever be successful, until slowly, at 3 feet a day, the folly finally reached 69 feet and started producing a steady amount of oil.
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McCoy was a livestock owner who thought that railroads could send meat to populated cities by transporting longhorns and other meats and he also built stockyards which were essentially cow pens.
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NLU was made 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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The typewriter was able to produce documents very quickly, was very significant and had great impacts on the society because businesses began to hire women as typists which opened job oppurtunities for women.
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This led to the creation of the Union Pacific, which would lay rails west from Omaha, and the Central Pacific, which would start in Sacramento and build east.
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Instead of trains haivng to apply hand brakes on every single train car, the air brake system was invented so that an air compressor would fill the brake pipes up with air which squeezed the brakes and made the train stop
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Sooner or later, the Standard Oil business crontrolled about 90% of the US so you could say Rockefeller was quite successful.
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Railroad workers from Ohio and Baltimore did a strike against wage cuts because of how many people had to get paid because of the amount of people now working on the country's new best thing, the railroad.
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Edison realized, while working on ways to improve the telegraph, that there was a way to record sound, thereby making the phongraph with 2 needles; one for recording and one for playback.
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After joining the Knights of Labor in 1874, Powderly became the grand master workman (the unions highest post)
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He promoted harmony among the different craft unions that comprised the AFL, trying to minimize jurisdictional battles as well as thorough organization and collective bargaining to secure shorter hours and higher wages.
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Basically a riot in Chicago's Haymarket Square to protest the slayings of two workers during a strike after a bomb explosion killed 7 police and the bomb thrower was never found but the incident was blamed on labor "radicalism" and resulted in public condemnation to the death of the Knights of Labor.
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The Statue of Liberty Monument was a given to the United States from France to celebrate the friendship the two endured during the American Revolution and has resembled freedom over the years that it has been standing.
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The Gospel of Wealth described the responsibility of promoting good deeds by others by the new upper class of self-made rich.
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The law preserves water resources until forested lands can be opened for settlement and exploitation, but is part of a growing conservation movement to preserve natural resources for future generations.
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these laws were passed so that the waters of commerce and trade could be watched constantly and carefully by the army.
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Carnegie wanted to become more involved in philanthropy and ended up giving away most of the money he earned by selling his business.
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Supreme Court shut down standard oil because they came to the conclustion that it was in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act which said that it banned any formations that would restrict trade, not distinguishing between bad and good trusts.
