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Industrial Revolution
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Bessemer Process
Original idea and patent held by William Kelly but bankruptsy forced him to sell his patent to Henry Bessemer who was working on a similar project. Picture:
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Credit Mobilier Scandal
Congressman accepted shares from stockholders in return for more government contracts
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Christopher Sholes
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Alexander Graham Bell
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Thomas Edison
Invented the phonograph, lightbulb, kinetiscope, film studio, and the Edison moving picture machine. He also improved the telephone -
Interstate Commerce Act
Legislation that gave the Federal Government (ICC) permission to moniter railway activities
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Pullman Strike
Factory workers at Pullman Palace Car Company walked out after negotiations of declining wages.They crippled the railway traffic nationwide. After the trains ran again they were attacked and vandalized.
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Henry Ford
Founder of the ford motor comapny. Introduced Ford Assembly Line. Created the Car
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Lochner v. NY Descision
Supreme Court descision on limiting the number of hours a baker could work in a day or week. The court ruled that it was not a leginimate excersise of police powers,
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