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the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass-production of steel from molten pig iron.
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Drake strikes black gold seventy feet below
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Edison arrives in Boston to change his professon from telegrapher to inventor.
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First typewriter invented.
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the presidents of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads meet in Promontory, Utah, and drive a ceremonial last spike into a rail line that connects their railroads.
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He established standard oil, which later controlled some 90 percent of U.S. refineries and pipelines.
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Moved to Boston to work on a device that would allow for the telegraph transmission of several messages set to different frequencies
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article was released that started the scandal.
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case decided by supreme court
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A rally at Haymarket Square was organized by labor radicals to protest the killing and wounding of several workers by the Chicago police during a strike the day before at the McCormick Reaper Works.
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Congress passed the interstate commerce act
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The Sherman Antitrust Act was passed.
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the displaced workers opened fire on a barge loaded with 300 Pinkerton agents who were being brought in as strikebreakers
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Three thousand Pullman workers went on a strike.
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Assisted the thousands of railroad strikers. she supported anybody involved with coal mining, textile workers or steelworkers were fighting to organize a union.
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Morgan was the main force behind the Trusts, controlling virtually all the basic American industries. He then looked to the financial and insurance industries, in which his banking firm also achieved a concentration of control.
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Orville Wright piloted the first powered airplane 20 feet above a wind-swept beach in North Carolina.
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the Supreme Court ruled that a New York law setting maximum working hours for bakers was unconstitutional.
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Ford created the Ford Model T car
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Opposed Woodrow Wilson as the Socialist Party candidate, then rallied against President Wilson and his decision to go to war.
