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Steam engines in factories
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Patent law passed
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First mills opened
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Telegraph was invented
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Henry Bessemer introduced an easier way to create steel with the Bessemer Process
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Edwin L. Drake struck oil
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Treansontinental Railroad
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John Rockerfeller established the Standard Oil Company
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Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone
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Thomas Edison invents the indandescent light bulb.
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America passes Sherman Antitrust Act, making monopilies illegal
