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He is credited with being one of the inventors of modern steel production, through the process of injecting air into molten iron, which he experimented with in the early 1850s.
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Edwin Drake was hired by the Seneca Oil Company to investigate suspected oil deposits in Titusville, Pennsylvania.
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first national labor federation in the United States.
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He began work on this at Kleinsteubers machine shop in Milwaukee, together with a fellow printer Samuel W. Soule, and they patented a numbering machine on November 13, 1866.[10]
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This was his first patan..he was only 22 years old
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the railheads of the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific railroads finally met at Promontory Summit, Utah Territory. A specially-chosen Chinese and Irish crew had taken only 12 hours to lay the final 10 miles (16 km) of track in time for the ceremony.
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became one of the world’s wealthiest men and a major philanthropist
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He expanded his business to shipping large herds of cattle to slaughter and quickly recognized flaws in the system.
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he created a machine with two needles: one for recording and one for playback.
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Martinsburg, West Virginia. Workers for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad went on strike, because the company had reduced workers' wages twice over the previous year.
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The Knights of Labor was one of the largest American labor organizations of the 19th century, but Powderly was a poor administrator and could barely keep it under control.
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He is also the founder
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Demands for an eight-hour working day became increasingly widespread among American laborers in the 1880s.-chicago
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the Statue of Liberty, a gift to the United States from the people of France, was officially unveiled to the public by President Grover Cleveland.
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considered a foundational document in the field of philanthropy.
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aw that allowed the President of the United States to set aside forest reserves from the land in the public domain.
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oldest federal environmental law in the United States
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Retiring from business, Carnegie set about in earnest to distribute his fortune.
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Supreme Court ordered the dissolution of Standard Oil Company, ruling it was in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act.
