History

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  • First oil well is drilled, Pennsylvania

    August 28, 1859, George Bissel and Edwin Drake drilled to oil in an oil creek.

  • Transcontinental railroad is completed

    The Californian governor misses the spike but hits it completing the first transcontinental railroad.

  • Bell patents telephone

    Bell receives his patent towards the first telephone 3 days later successfully creating it.

  • First telephone on White House

    President Hayes has the first White house telephone installed in the mansions telegraph room.

  • Edison perfects incandescent light bulb

    Using carbonized cotton thread the bulb lasted 13.5 hours before burning out.

  • Sherman Antitrust Act is passed

    Outlawed monopolistic business acts.

  • Railroads set up standard time zones

    Operators on the RR needed specific times for departure and arrival times.

  • First electric trolley line, Richmond, VA

    After multiple attempts it finally publicly opened and was used on the daily.

  • Carnegie Steel Company is formed

    1892* The Carnegie steel company was formed and running.

  • J.P. Morgan forms U.S. Steel

    JP Morgan and the Carnegie Steel Company create US steel.

  • Rockefeller founds Standard Oil

    Rockerfeller and other businessman founded in standard oil.

  • Bell patents telephone