Industrial Revolution

  • Bessemer Process

    Bessemer Process

    The Bessemer Process was developed and patented. The process made making steel easy and cheap.
  • Edwin Drake

    Edwin Drake

    Drilled First Oil well
  • Pacific Railroad Act

    Pacific Railroad Act

    Beginning of the Transcontinental Railroad
  • Christopher Sholes

    Christopher Sholes

    Granted a patent for a page numbering machine
  • Chris Sholes

    Chris Sholes

    Made Patent for the typewriter
  • Transcontinental Railroad

    Transcontinental Railroad

    Transcontinental Railroad was completed
  • Thomas Edison

    Thomas Edison

    Built his machine shop
  • Alexander Graham Bell

    Alexander Graham Bell

    Patented the telephone
  • Thomas Edison

    Thomas Edison

    Invented the Carbon Transmitter
  • Thomas Edison

    Thomas Edison

    Invented the Phonograph
  • Thomas Edison

    Thomas Edison

    Make a breakthrough with the electric lightbulb
  • Interstate Commerce Act

    Interstate Commerce Act

    Act that regulated some abuses with shipping goods with railroads
  • Wright Brothers

    Wright Brothers

    Wright Brother founded their bike shop, which led to delveoping the airplane
  • Homestead Strike

    Homestead Strike

    Strike against a steelmaking company
  • Pullman Strike Begins

    Pullman Strike Begins

    A strike against the Pullman Railroad company
  • Pullman Strike ends

    Pullman Strike ends

    An end to the strike against the Pullman Railroad company
  • Henry Ford

    Henry Ford

    Founded the Ford Motor Company
  • Wright Brothers

    Wright Brothers

    First Flight of the airplane
  • Lochner vs. New York

    Lochner vs. New York

    James Lochner went to trial against a New York Labor law that said a baker could only work 60 hours in a week.
  • Henry Ford

    Henry Ford

    Created the first mass-assembly line