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The Bessemer Process was developed and patented. The process made making steel easy and cheap.
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Drilled First Oil well
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Beginning of the Transcontinental Railroad
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Granted a patent for a page numbering machine
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Made Patent for the typewriter
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Transcontinental Railroad was completed
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Built his machine shop
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Patented the telephone
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Invented the Carbon Transmitter
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Invented the Phonograph
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Make a breakthrough with the electric lightbulb
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Act that regulated some abuses with shipping goods with railroads
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Wright Brother founded their bike shop, which led to delveoping the airplane
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Strike against a steelmaking company
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A strike against the Pullman Railroad company
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An end to the strike against the Pullman Railroad company
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Founded the Ford Motor Company
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First Flight of the airplane
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James Lochner went to trial against a New York Labor law that said a baker could only work 60 hours in a week.
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Created the first mass-assembly line