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Christoper sholes
In 1840 sholes moved and settled down in southport where he then found the southprot telegraph a weekly newspaper. Sholes soon became the owner and publisher of the southport telegraph. -
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Edwine Drake
In 1859 the most important oil well was drilled in the middle of a small farm country in northwestern pennsylvania. This was one of the first wells to be a succesfully drilled well. The man responsable for this was Edwine Drake. -
Bessemer Process
In 1850 the bessemer process had a set bck becasue of a small percentage of nitrogen entering the blow hole, but was then fixed. In 1860 The Open Hearth process was developed. -
Transcontinental railroad completed
In 1869 the presidents of the union pacific and the central pacific railroads met in Utah and they wanted to connect there two railroads. thi made transcontinental possible for the first time in the U.S. -
Credit Mobilier Scandle
1872-1873 the Credit Mobilier Scandle damaged the careers of several gilded age politicans in the Major stockholders in the Union Pacific Railroad formed a company, the credit Mobilier and gave it contracts to build the railroad. -
Alexander Graham Bell
between 1873 and 1874 bell spent long days and nights to perfect the harmonic telegraph,but during this experiment he thought of transmitiing the human voice over wires. -
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison was granted a patent for his light bulb . Edison set off to develop a company that would deliver light and electricity to cities around the world.That same year he founded the Edison Illumination company whitch then became the genral electric corparation. -
Interstate Commerce Act
The Interstate Commerce was originally designed to prevent unfair buisness practices in the rail road industry, then this eventually shifted responsilbility for regulating the economic effairs from the states to the federal government. -
Haymarket Riot
On may 3rd 1889 workers where protesting because of union action at the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company the national campaign to secure an eight-hour workday. At the site of the protesting a bomb was dropped and several police where killed and over 60 people where hurt before the violence ended. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
The first legislative enacted by the united states congress. All comninations that restrain trade between states or with foreign nations was one of the acts main outlaws. -
Pullman Strike
May 11th 1894- July 20th 1894 there was railroad strike and boycott on rail roads and a lot of rail traffic in the midwest of the united states. Because of financial reverses related to the economic dpression the Pullman Palace Car Company, cut the already low wages of its workers by about 25 percent. -
Wright Brothers
On December 17, 1903, Orville Wright piloted the first powered airplane 20 feet above a beach in North Carolina, The flight lasted 12 seconds and covered 120 feet. Three more flights were flown in that day and the longest one lasted 59 seconds over a distance of 852 feet. -
Henry Ford
Henry ford established the ford moter company. In his early childhood he was a farmer and didnt want to farm anymore, so when he was 16 he left to go apprentice to be a machinist. -
Lochner V. NY Decision
In 1905 the U.S supreme court struck down a state law restricting the hours people in the baking industry could work. This minor decision created a new era in the constitutional interpretation.
