Industrial Revolution Timeline

  • Bessemer process

    Bessemer process

    Bessemer had a steel process on his ideas of the manufaction of iron.
  • Edwin Drake

    Edwin Drake

    He was a 'coloniel' that lived during the Pennsylvania oil industry.
  • Credit Mobilier Scandal

    Credit Mobilier Scandal

    The construction of the Union Pacific Railroad started.
  • Transcontinental Railroad Completed

    Transcontinental Railroad Completed

    All transportation relied on the Transcontinental Railroad, especially in the Southern Pacific Railroad.
  • John D. Rockefeller

    John D. Rockefeller

    He created the Standard Oil Company of Ohio. The company started to grow, and the prices were also affordable.
  • Christopher Sholes

    Christopher Sholes

    His company had the first commercial typewriters for sale, which added sewing machines to the invention.
  • Thomas Edison

    Thomas Edison

    He moved his invention factory that was built. A large number of innovations were created in the next decade.
  • Alexander Graham Bell

    Alexander Graham Bell

    He formed the Bell Telephone Company and set up the first telephone exchange in New Haven, Connecticut.
  • Munn v. Illinois

    Munn v. Illinois

    A law case questioning the fact whether Illinois should be able to change the grain elevators.
  • Mother Jones

    Mother Jones

    She participated in labor union meetings and thought she could dedicate herself to this.
  • Haymarket Riot

    Haymarket Riot

    While trying to desperse a labor rally, a bomb exploded in Haymarket Square.
  • Interstate Commerce Act

    Interstate Commerce Act

    The act regulated the growing industry of the railroad tracks and the Interstate Commerce Commission.
  • Sherman Antitrust Act

    Sherman Antitrust Act

    The Congress passed the act and it was a list of laws about interstate commerce.
  • Homestead Strike

    Homestead Strike

    The workforce of the Carnegie steel manufacturing plant seized the steel plant. They did not want to lose their jobs.
  • Eugene Debs

    Eugene Debs

    He created the American Railway Union, which was the first industrial union which all workers could work there.
  • Pullman Strike

    Pullman Strike

    Workers in Pullman, Illinois called the strike that became a famous clash in the United States.
  • Henry Ford

    Henry Ford

    He created his own version of the 'horseless carriage' that was powered using gasoline.
  • Wright Brothers

    Wright Brothers

    Orville Wright and Oliver Wright built the first aircraft. They flew the airplane on this date.
  • Lochner v. N.Y. Decision

    Lochner v. N.Y. Decision

    He held ordinary people, such as immigrants, should make their own decision on why they exchanged goods. He was fined for making his own workers work longer hours.
  • J.P. Morgan

    J.P. Morgan

    He restored the economy developed by the Federal Reserve System. He worked with the secretary of treasury.