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Typewriter invention
A typewriter is a mechanical or electromechanical machine for writing in characters similar to those produced by printer's movable type by means of keyboard-operated types striking a ribbon to transfer ink or carbon impressions onto paper. -
Telephone invention
Alexander Graham Bell is the father of the telephone. -
Bessemer Process
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. -
Pensylvania oil rush
he oil rush began in Titusville, Pennsylvania, in the Oil Creek Valley when Colonel Edwin L. Drake struck "rock oil" there. -
Homestead Act
The homestead acts were several united states laws that gave people land at little or no cost. -
National Labor Union
Apolitical action movement that sought to improve working conditions through legislative reform rather than through collective barganing. -
Railway Air break
The railway air break is a railway brake power braking system with compressed air as the operating medium created by George Westinghouse. -
1st transcontinential RR built
The First Transcontinental Railroad in the United States was built in the 1860s, linking the well developed railway network of the Eastern coast with rapidly growing California. -
Standard oil company
Standard Oil Co. Inc. was an American oil producing, transporting, refining, and marketing company established by John D Rockefeller. -
The great railroad strike
Labor unions were not involved; these were spontaneous outbreaks in numerous cities of violence against railroads -
Phonograph invention
Thomas Edison invented the first phonograph, thanking him for the secret to recording sound. -
Lightbulb invention
Thomas Alva Edison, although he could be said to have created the first commercially practical incandescent light. -
Haymarket Square riot
A labor protest near Chicagos haymarket square turnded into a riot someone threw a bomb at police that caused the death of at least 8 people. -
Statue of Liberty
Collassal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty island in New York Harbor in New York City. -
Forrest reserve act
Law that allowed the President of the United States to set aside forest reserves from the land in the public domain. -
Homestead act
It was an industrial lockout and strike. -
Pullman Strike
A nationwide railroad strike against the pullman company. -
Camegie sell to JP Morgan
The Nations largest steel company founded by Andrew Carnegie, sold to JP Motgan for $480 million. -
Standard oil dissolved by supreme court
Surpreme court ordered the dissolution of standard oil company, ruling it was in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act. -
Gospel of wealth published
Article written by Andrew Carnegie in June of 1889 that describes the responsibility of philanthropy by the new upper class of selfmade rich.
