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Bessemer Process
The Bessemer Process was developed and patented. The process made making steel easy and cheap. -
Edwin Drake
Drilled First Oil well -
Pacific Railroad Act
Beginning of the Transcontinental Railroad -
Christopher Sholes
Granted a patent for a page numbering machine -
Chris Sholes
Made Patent for the typewriter -
Transcontinental Railroad
Transcontinental Railroad was completed -
Thomas Edison
Built his machine shop -
Alexander Graham Bell
Patented the telephone -
Thomas Edison
Invented the Carbon Transmitter -
Thomas Edison
Invented the Phonograph -
Thomas Edison
Make a breakthrough with the electric lightbulb -
Interstate Commerce Act
Act that regulated some abuses with shipping goods with railroads -
Wright Brothers
Wright Brother founded their bike shop, which led to delveoping the airplane -
Homestead Strike
Strike against a steelmaking company -
Pullman Strike Begins
A strike against the Pullman Railroad company -
Pullman Strike ends
An end to the strike against the Pullman Railroad company -
Henry Ford
Founded the Ford Motor Company -
Wright Brothers
First Flight of the airplane -
Lochner vs. New York
James Lochner went to trial against a New York Labor law that said a baker could only work 60 hours in a week. -
Henry Ford
Created the first mass-assembly line
