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Near Titusville, Pennsylvania, Edwin L. Drake struck oil, being the first petroleum well to exist.
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The railroad to connect the East and West coast is completed, allowing fast travel from coast to coast.
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John D. Rockefeller founds the Standard Oil company of Ohio with his brother (William Rockefeller), Henry Flagler, and a group of other men
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Carnegie Steel Company was formed in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.
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Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone and tests it 3 days later.
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President Rutherford B. Hayes has the first telephone installed in the White House.
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Edison successfully has a lightbulb burn for 13.5 hours with a carbonized cotton filament.
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To eliminate confusion when travelling by train to different local timezones, it was put into 4 main time zones.
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Electric trolleys traveled on Frank J. Sprague's Richmond Union Passenger Railway.
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The first act to cut down on monopolistic businesses was passed
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A number of people, including Carnegie and Morgan helped found U.S. Steel
