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First oil well drilled
The first oil well drilled was in Pennsylvania on August 27th 1859.It was called the Drake Well and was 65.9 feet deep. It was built by Edwin Drake and William A. Smith. -
Transcontinental Railroad is built
The transcontinental railroad was finished being built on May 10 1869.It was 1,912 miles long and connected the entire country with one railroad. It had made traveling to the west much safer and faster. The United States government had helped pay for it, using land grants. The Central Pacific railroad company and the Union Pacific railroad company had been rivals but both companies had come together to help build this railroad. -
Rockefeller finds Standard Oil
John D. Rockefeller and his brother William Rockefeller had found the company Standard Oil together. It was built in 1870 and was located in Cleveland Ohio. It was the largest oil refinery in the world at the time. -
Bell Patents Telephone
On March 7th Alexander graham Bell had received a patent for his telephone. The telephone had made it much easier for people to communicate over long distances. They could talk to each other instantly and effectively -
The First Telephone in the White House
In 1877, President Rutherford B. Hayes had installed the first telephone in the White House. He embraced the technology but had rarely received any calls. -
Edison Perfects the Light Bulb
In 1879, Thomas Edison and his team, tested more than 3,000 designs for bulb, in his laboratory in Menlo Park, N.J.. He finally patented a design made of an electric lamp with a carbon filament. He claimed that he would make the elecic light so cheap that “only the rich will burn candles” -
Railroads Set Up Standard Time Zones
Train operators needed a new time plan that would offer the same train schedule for departure and arrivals. Four new time zones were introduced. every 15 longitudinal degrees, the time changed by an hour, thus creating 24 time zones around the world. Over the years, governments have adopted, altered or ignored Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) as they saw fit. -
First Electronic Trolley Line
On February 2nd 1888, the Richmond Union Passenger Railway was made. This was the first practical electronic trolley line.There were 74 unsuccessful attempts to build a electric trolley line before this one. This set the path for trolley lines. The line was designed by Frank Julian Sprague. -
Sherman Antitrust Act is passed
It outlawed monopolistic businesses. It was used to protect the public from failure of the market. It was also the first measure passed by the U.S Congress to prohibit trusts.It was passed under the presidency of Benjamin Harrison. -
Carnegie Steel Company
Carnegie Steel Company was created by Andrew Carnegie. It was built in 1892 and was located in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. It had made major technological innovations. -
J.P. Morgan forms U.S. Steel
He combined many different smaller companies or “joined forces” Carnegie Steel. It was deemed not to be a monopoly.It established headquarters at the empire building in New York.
