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The Bessemer Process was named after Henry Bessemer, a British engineer. It was patented by William Kelly in November of 1856, This process was a cheap way to make steel in very large quantities.
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Started his own business, partnering with Maurice Clark. Each paying $2,000, they formed their company Clark & Rockefeller.
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After attempting to drill oil all summer long, Edwin Drake struck black gold 70 feet into the ground in late August 1859.
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Worked with Carlos Glidden and Samuel W. Soules to make the first typewriter, On this date they were granted the patent for the typewriter.
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Last rail of the Transcontinental Railroad was laid on this date. Main supporters of the railroad: C.P. Huntington, Charles Crocker, Leland Stanford, and Mark Hopkins.
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After working for his father who was a banker, John Pierpont Morgan started his own private banking company, J.P. Morgan & Co.
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(In this year) Thomas Durant, vice president of Union Pacific Railroad, and other associates made a scam where instead of hiring contractors to build the railroad, they would pay themselves.
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Working with Thomas Watson, they developed a telephone. On this date, the first complete sentence was transmitted, proving that their experiment worked.
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Warehouse firm Munn & Scott were guilty of violating a law that had a maximum charge which could be imposed by grain facility operators.
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Thomas Edison's first commercial power station started operations on September 4, 1882. His Pearl Street power station provided light and power to customers in a one square-mile radius in Manhattan.
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What started as a labor protest in Chicago, ended up as a riot. When someone threw a bomb at police, eight people died in Haymarket Square as a result.
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Approved on this date. Interstate Commerce Act created Interstate Commerce Commission to observe conduct in the railroad industry. Five members were recruited on the board to enforce federal regulation.
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(In this year) First antitrust law signed by president Benjamin Harrison. Named after John Sherman, an Ohio senator who was the main supporter of the antitrust law.
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Andrew Carnegie's Homestead Steel Works was closed by manager Henry C. Frick on this date. Former workers opened fire on 300 Pinkerton agents, who were called to stand as strikebreakers.
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Pullman Palace Car Company workersa walked out after they were declined wages
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Mary Harris "Mother" Jones assisted thousands of mine workers in a strike to lay down their tools and refuse to work.
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Raised enough money by the end of summer of 1899 to start his own company.
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Wilbur and Orville Wright invented the first form of aviation,
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(In this year) Supreme Court decided a New York state law which limits bakery workers to no more than ten hours a day and 60 hours a week.
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Delivered a statement to the court after he was accused and convicted of violating the Sedition Act, which banned anti-war propaganda.
