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First Oil Well Drilled in PA
George Bissell and Edwin L. Drake made the first successful use of a drilling rig on a well drilled especially to produce oil, at a site on Oil Creek near Titusville, Pennsylvania -
Transcontinental Railrod
A transcontinentalRailroad is a network of railroads. It crosses a continental land mass with terminals at oceans or borders. -
Rockefeller founds standard oil
Became one of the worlds most wealthiest men and a major philanthropist. The Standard Oil trust streamlined production and logistics, lowered costs, and undercut competitors. -
First telephone on White House
President Rutherford B. Hayes has the White House’s first telephone installed in the mansion s telegraph room. President Hayes embraced the new technology, though he rarely received phone calls -
Edison perfects incandescent light bulb
Using a filament of carbonized cotton thread, his first attempt at this design results in a bulb that lasts about 13.5 hours before burning out. He later extends the life of the bulb to 40 hours -
Railroads set up standard time zones
American and Canadian railroads begin using four continental time zones to end the confusion of dealing with thousands of local times. The bold move was emblematic of the power shared by the railroad companies. -
First electric trolley line
The trolley system was designed by Frank Julian Sprague. Allowed for quick and easy transportation in towns and areas trains arent needed -
The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890
was the first measure passed by the U.S. Congress to prohibit trusts. It was named for Senator John Sherman of Ohio, who was a chairman of the Senate finance committee and the Secretary of the Treasury under President Hayes. -
Carnegie Steel Company
Carnegie Steel Company was a steel producing company created by Andrew Carnegie to manage business at his steel mills in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area in the late 19th century. -
J.P. Morgan forms U.S. Steel
United States Steel Corporation was the largest business enterprise ever launched. financed railroads and helped organize U.S. Steel, General Electric and other major corporations -
Bell patents telephone
29-year-old Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for his revolutionary new invention–the telephone. With the help of Thomas A. Watson, a Boston machine shop employee, Bell developed a prototype. In this first telephone, sound waves caused an electric current to vary in intensity and frequency, causing a thin, soft iron plate–called the diaphragm–to vibrate
