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Industrialization

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  • Kerosene is used for light lamps.

    Kerosene is used for light lamps.
    Kerosene was first used in light lamps during the 1840s.

  • Bessemer process created to make steel.

    Bessemer process created to make steel.
    The bessemer process was a cheap and efficient process for making steel.

  • Ground drilled for oil.

    Ground drilled for oil.
    Edwin L. Drake drilled the ground for oil for the the first time.

  • Typewriter invented.

    Typewriter invented.
    Christoper Sholes invents the typewriter.

  • The Transcontinental Railroad

    The Transcontinental Railroad
    The Central Pacific and Union Pacific compltete the transcontinental railroad.

  • Telephone invented.

    Telephone invented.
    Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone.

  • World's first research center.

    World's first research center.
    Thomas A. Edison established the world's first research center.

  • Regulation of Railroads.

    Regulation of Railroads.
    Munn v. Illinois establishes government regulation of railroads.

  • Light bulb invented.

    Light bulb invented.
    Thomas A. Edison invents the first workable light bulb.

  • Electricity.

    Electricity.
    By the 1890s, electricity is used throughout most of the Nation.