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Bessemer Process Discovered
The Bessemer process was the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass-production of steel from molten pig iron prior to the open hearth furnace. -
oli in PA
the oil rush began in Titusville -
Trancontinental RR built
The First Transcontinental Railroad (known originally as the "Pacific Railroad" and later as the "Overland Route") was a 1,907-mile (3,069 km) contiguous railroad line constructed in the United States between 1863 and 1869 west of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers to connect the Pacific coast at San Francisco Bay with the existing eastern U.S. rail network at Council Bluffs, Iowa. -
Homestead Act
Any adult who had never taken up arms against the U.S. government could apply. Women, blacks, and immigrants were eligible. -
National labor unions started
Founded in 1866 and dissolved in 1873, it paved the way for other organizations, such as the Knights of Labor and the AFL. -
Typre writer invented
invented in 1868 by Americans Christophe -
Air brake invented
Modern trains rely upon a fail-safe air brake system that is based upon a design patented by George Westinghouse -
Standard oil company started
Standard Oil Co. Inc. was an American oil producing, transporting, refining, and marketing company. Established in 1870 by John D. Rockefeller as a corporation in Ohio, it was the largest oil refiner in the world of its time.
