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Alexander Graham Bell Patents the Telephone.
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With the aid of J.P. Morgan, they bought Carnegie’s interests for more than $492 million and put together U.S. Steel, adding National Steel, National Tube, American Steel and Wire, American Steel Hoop, American Sheet Steel, and American Tinplate to the nucleus of the Carnegie and Federal Companies.
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George Bissell and Edwin L. Drake were the first to drill on a well to produce oil, on Oil Creek near Titusville, Pennsylvania.
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in Promontory, Utah, the first transcontinental railroad in the United States was completed.
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President Rutherford B. Hayes has the White House's first telephone installed. He rarely received phone calls.
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He used a filament of carbonized cotton thread ,the bulb that lasts about 13.5 hours
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Operators of the railroad lines needed a new time plan that would offer a uniform train schedule for departures and arrivals. Four standard time zones for the continental United States were introduced.
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The Richmond Union Passenger Railway, in Richmond, Virginia, was the first practical electric trolley system, and set the pattern for most subsequent electric trolley systems around the world.
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The Sherman Antitrust Act is a landmark federal statute in the history of United States antitrust law . It was passed by Congress under the presidency of Benjamin Harrison.
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Carnegie Steel Company was a steel producing company created by Andrew Carnegie to manage businesses at steel mills in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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John D. Rockefeller entered the oil industry in the 1860s and in 1870, and founded Standard Oil with some other business partners.
