Business history of post civil war

First telephone call

Mar 10, 1876

Alexander Graham Bell was the inventor of the telephone

The first pay phone

1898

Was put into place in Hartford, Connecticut

Invention of the assembly line

1901

Ransom E Olds invented the assembly line

First affordible car

Oct 1, 1908

The model t by ford was the first car that the public could afford.

First Airport in the United States

Nov 20, 1919

The airport was built in City of Tucson

The invention of the telivision

Sep 7, 1927

the TV system was designed by Philo Taylor Farnsworth

The great depression

Oct 29, 1929

Economic depression that swept the United States in the 1930s

High speed printer

1938

The first high speed printer was invented

End of world war two

May 8, 1945

The day the Germany surrenders in world war two

The first universal credit card

1950

Was introduced by the Diners’ Club incorporated

The start Microsoft

Apr 4, 1975

Bill gates started this multinational computer technology corporation

The start of videoconferencing

1990

The ability to have a video conference with someone in a different location became usable.

The september 11 attacks

Sep 11, 2001

Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda coordinated four attacks in the United states on this date

First iphone released

Jun 29, 2007

Steve Jobs announced the iPhone when he was at the Macworld convention. and said it would be released on the 29th of June