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The first oil well to be drilled in the United States-1859
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The railroad connecting the east and west coast is completed on May, 10th 1869
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Bell patents the telephone after his first successful test in 1876
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in 1877, President Rutherford B. Hayes has the White House's first telephone installed in the mansion's telegraph room
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Richmond become the First city in the union to have an electric trolley line.
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In 1882 Rockefeller and his business partners found the Standard Oil Company
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Railroads set up standard time zones to offer a uniformed time schedule.
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Sherman Antitrust Act is passed making monopolies illegal in the united states.
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In 1892 Andrew Carnegie Founds the Carnegie Steel Company rising rapidly to become one of the richest most influential Americans of the time
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J.P. Morgan forms U.S. Steel in 1901 becoming very powerful and wealthy
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Edison creates the first commercial lightbulb having a lifespan of 13.5 hours. He later extended this to about 40.
