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Big Business and West

By Alyssa Galdamez

  • First Oil Well is Drilled, Pennsylvania

    First Oil Well is Drilled, Pennsylvania
    The first oil well was drilled near Titusville, Pennsylvania. It was located at Oil Creek. George Bissell and Edwin L. Drake were the first to successfully use a drilling rig on an oil well.

  • The First Transcontinental Railroad is Completed

    The First Transcontinental Railroad is Completed
    The railroad was highly anticipated by people in the West. A golden spike was stuck into the ground as a celebration for its completion in Promontory, Utah.

  • Rockefeller Founds Standard Oil

    Rockefeller Founds Standard Oil
    Rockefeller founded Standard Oil in Cleveland Ohio.He started building up his company in 1868 by purchasing all of the other competition and forming it into one company.

  • Bell Patents the Telephone

    Bell Patents the Telephone
    Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for the telephone on March 7th,1876. The telephone was a huge advancement for communication and allowed people to communicate with others who were farther away

  • First Telephone in White House

    First Telephone in White House
    In 1877, President Rutherford B. Hays had the white houses’ first telephone installed in the telegraph room. He was very eager to get his hands on the new technology.

  • Edison Perfects Incandescent Light Bulb

    Edison Perfects Incandescent Light Bulb
    Edison worked on the light bulb for about two years (1878-1880). But in November of 1879, Edison filed for a patent for his new invention of the light bulb.

  • Railroads Set Up Standard Time Zones

    Railroads Set Up Standard Time Zones
    Since the railroads were so big at the time, operators decided that their had to be some form of a time schedule for departures and arrivals. On November 18th, 1883 Four time zones were made across the united states.

  • First Electric Trolley Line, Richmond, VA

    First Electric Trolley Line, Richmond, VA
    The first electric trolley system was in Richmond, VA. Frank Julian started his trails in 1887 and the electric trolley system was used regularly on February 2nd, 1888.

  • The Sherman Anti Trust Act

    The Sherman Anti Trust Act
    On July 2, 1890, the Sherman Antitrust Act is passed. This was the first act passed that outlawed monopolistic business practices and was the first plan passed by the US Congress to outlaw trust.

  • Carnegie Steel Company is Formed

    Carnegie Steel Company is Formed
    The Carnegie Steel Company was formed in 1892 in Downtown, Pittsburg, PA. Carnegie began constructing his first steel mill (Edgar Thomson Steel Works in 1872.

  • JP Morgan and Albert H. Gary Forms US Steel

    JP Morgan and Albert H. Gary Forms US Steel
    On March 2, 1901, JP Morgan and Albert H. Gary founded US Steel. They did this by combining three different steel companies: Andre Carnegie's Steel Company, Gary Federal Steel Company, and William Henry Judge Moore’s National Steel Company.