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Bessemer Process
The Bessemer Process is discoverd for mass producing steel. On August 13, 1856 the bessemer process was working indenpendently in Sheffield developed and patented the same process. The Bessemer Process was able to develop into commercial sucess. The finished results was the means of mass producing steel. -
Edwin Drake
On August 28, 1859 Edwin Drake struck black gold. It was almost seventy feet down, by his workers working all summer, six days a week, and while the Sabbath Drake's inviolable day off. During the water flood Drake had an inovated solution to drive a iron pipe down to the bedrock, and then place the drill inside the pipe to keep the water out of the evacuated shaft. -
Christopher Sholes
June 23, 1868 Christopher Sholes was granted a typewriter as well as Glidden and Soulé. He continues to make contributions to improving the typewriter, even though the poor health during the last several years of his life. -
Transcontinental Railroad completed
May 10, 1869 the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific railroads meet in Promontory, Utah. They drove a ceremonial last spike into the rail lining that would connect to their railroads. This made the transcontinental railroad completed travel possible for the first time in U.S. History. -
J.P. Morgan.
On February 28, 1871 after J.P. Morgan worked for his father he started his own private banking company in 1871. In which later the company became to be known as J.P. Morgan & Co. -
Credit Mobilier Scandal
1872-1873 was the credit mobilier scandal of damaged careers of few of the Glided Age politicians. The union pacific railroads of major stockholders formed a company. In this construction to influential congressmen they sold or gave shares. -
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Grahm Bell invented the telephone on March 10, 1876. On that day he made his first call to his assistant Thomas Watson. On the phone call he told his assistant " Mr. Watson, Come here; I want you" ( History.com ). -
Munn v. Illinois
March 1, 1877 the Munn v. Illinois this is the case in which the Supreme Court upheld the power of the government to regulate private industries. The appeal in 1877 caught the eye of the Supreme Court. -
Thomas Edison
On October 15, 1878 Thomas Edison wanted to focus on inventing a secure and inexpensive electric light to replace the gaslight. Thomas Edison had help with the prominent financial backers like the J.P. Morgan and the Vanderbilt family, he set up the Edison Electric Light Company and began the research and development. -
John D. Rockefeller
January 2, 1882 he organized a Standard Oil Trust it was a business trust that would serve as a model of creation of other kinds of monopolies. He was appointed the head of the organization. -
Haymarket Riot
May 4, 1886 there was a violent confrontation between the police and the labour protestors in Chicago this was know as the Haymarket Riot. This became the symbol of the international struggle for workers rights. -
Mother Jones
Mother Jones participated in the Haymarket Day demonstartion. This event was called a little district in Chicago known as the Haymarket square. This is where the workers from the McCormick Harvester Works which rallied for the eight hour weekdays. -
Interstate Commerce Act
On February 4, 1887 the interstate commerce act was passed by congress. The first industry subject to federal regualation was making the railroads. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
July 2, 1890 the Sherman Antitrust Act was enacted by the United States Congress to a concentration of power that interfere with trade and reduce economic competition. The United States senator John Sherman of Ohio, was the expert on the regulation of commerence. -
Homestead Strike
The Homestead Strike was a violent labour dispute aganist the Carnegie Steel Company and many of its workers that happened on July 6, 1892. This strike was pitted aganist the companies management. -
Eugene Debs
June 20, 1893 Eugene Debs supported the organization of laubor by industry rather than by craft. After many unsuccessful tries to unite the various railroad brotherhoods of his day. He became president in the same year 1893 of the newly established American Railway Union. -
Pullman Strike
On May 11, 1894 the pullman workers wlked off on their jobs and the delegation then voted to go on strike. The companies representatives posted signs at all of the gates stateing "The works are closed until further notice" (Encyclopedia Britannica). -
Wright Brothers
December 17, 1903 the Wright Brothers acheived to invent the first powered, sustained and controlled airplane flight; they over came their milestone. Two years later they built and flew the first practical airplane. -
Lochner v. NY Decision
February 23, 1905 the Supreme Court took over New York's law setting to the max working hours for bakers was unconstitutional. The courts constitution prohibits states from interfering with most of the employements contract because of the right to buy or sell labor is fundamental freedom is protected by the fourteenth amendment. -
Henry Ford
On October 1, 1908 was Henry Ford dediction to the production of efficient and realiable automobles. The automobles would be affordiable for everyone and the end results were the Model T. Henry Ford was the one who established the Ford Moter Company.
