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Operators of the new railroad lines needed a new time plan that would offer a uniform time schedule for departures and arrivals. Four standard time zones for the continental U.S. were introduced in 1883.
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In the late 1850s, Seneca Oil Company send Coll. Edwin L. Drake, to start drilling on a piece of leased land.
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On May 10, 1869, a golden spike was driven at Promontory, Utah, signaling the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the U.S.
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American inventor Alexander Graham Bell tested his telephone in 1876, calling his assistant to say, "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."
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In 1877, President Rutherford B. Hayes has the White House's first telephone installed in the mansion's telegraph room.
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Thomas Edison perfects the first commercially practical incandescent light bulb using a filament of carbonized cotton thread. His first attempt lasted 13.5 hours before burning out but later extended the life of the bulb to 40 hours.
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The Richmond Union Passenger Railway, in VA, was the first practical electrical trolley system, and set pattern for the most subsequent electric trolley systems around the world.
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The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was the first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices. The Act was passed in 1890 and was passed by the U.S. Congress to prohibit trusts.
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Carnegie Steel Company was a steel producing company created by Carnegie to manage businesses at steel mills in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area in the late 19th century.
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In 1901, some of the world's greatest industrial and financial leaders joined forces to create the U.S. Steel Corporation. The company dominated the steel market during the first half of the twentieth century.
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On May 15, 1911, the Supreme Court ordered the dissolution of Standard Oil Company, ruling it was in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act.
