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Bessener Process
Sir Henry Bessemer developed and patented the process of a method of mass-producing steel. The method was first discovered by william Kelly who began the experiments of removing the impurtities from big iron by an air blast. -
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Edwin Drake
Edwin Drake was hired by James Townsend to investigate Titusville, Pennsylvania for oil deposits. There were oil seeped from the ground. Started the Pennsylvania's Oil Rush by the early fall in 1859. He was determined to find a new energy source, which is when he drilled and found oil 70 feet down. -
Christopher Sholes
Sholes and Samuel W. Soulé were granted a patent for a page-numbering machine. Carlos Glidden told him he should rework his invention into a letter-printing machine. He was later grated another patent for the typewriter which he devoted his whole life to. -
Transcontinental Railroad Completed
This is the day that the presidents of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads meet in Promontory, Utah. This meeting was to drive a last spke into a rail line to connect the railroads. The last spike make transcontinental travel possible for the first time in U.S history. -
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Credit Mobilier Scandel
Damaged the careers of several Gilded Age politicians. The deal between congressmen helped themselves by approving federal subsidies of the cost of railroad builders. -
Alexander Graham Bell
This is the date that Aleander Graham Bells telephone sent the first coherent complete sentence was transmitted in his laboratory. Three days earlier was when he was granted his patent to transmit speech telegraphically. -
Munn v. Illinois
It was a case developed as a result of the legislature's responding in 1871 to pressure from the National grange by setting maximum rates that companies could charge for the storage and transport of products. They found Munn from the Chicago grain warehouse firm found guilty of violating the law. -
Edison Illuminating Company
Granted a patent in January of 1880 Thomas Edison sought out to develop a company that would give the elictricity to power and ligt the cities of the world. He founded the first investore-owned electric utility later known as the General Electric Corporation. -
Haymarket Riot
A labor protest rally near Chicago's Haymarket Square turned into a riot when someone threw a bomb at the police. It was viewed as a setback for the organized labor movement in America. -
Interstate Commerce Act
When the act was passed it made the railroads the first industry subject to federal regulation. Prior to the act the railroads were privately owned and entirely unregulated. The act sought to address problems by setting guidelines of how the railroads could do business. -
Homestead Strike
This strike pitted one of the most powerful new corporations, Carnegie Steel Company agaisnt the nation's strongest trade union, the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel worker. This strioke won the steelworkers a three-year contract. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
The first United States Federal statute to limit cartel and monopolies. The piece of legislation was the result of intense public opposition to the concentration of economic power in large corporations. It was first measured enacted by the U.S Congress to progibit trusts. -
Eugene Debs
Organized the American Railway Union, which waged a strike agaisnt the Pullman Company of Chicago. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison for his opposition to the United States' involvement in World War II -
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Pullman Strike
Railroad strike and boycott that severly disrupted rail traffic in the Midwest. It was a response to financial reberses realted to the econmic depression. Pullman Palaxe Car Company cut the low wages of its worker by about 25 percent while families were already facing starvation. -
Mother Jones
Mary Harris Jones became a legendary labor organizer and champion of workers' rights. She turned into a powerful sumbol for the union movement whose modest appearance was a determination to fight agaisnt the social injustices of the Industrial Revolution -
Henry Ford
Henry Ford established Ford Motor Company and rolled out the first Model T five years later. He received backing from different investors over seven years with his partners. He later left his namesake company with his parnters to open his own. -
Wright Brothers
On this day Wilbur and Orville Wright succeeded in fluing the first free, controlled flight of a power-driven, heavier than air plane. Flying for 59 seconds, at 852 feet, still and extraordinary achievement. -
Lochner v. New York Decision
The Supreme Court ruled that a New York law setting maximum working hours for bakes was unconsitiutional. Lochner was senteced to incarceration in a county jail until he paid the fine of $50 because he allowed an employee to work more than 60 hours in a week. -
J.P Morgan
He was one of the most powerful bankers of his era, finaced railroads and organize U.S Steel and General Electric. Morgan used his influence to help stabilize American financial markets during several economic crises. -
John D. Rockefeller
Founder of the Standard Oil Company and became one of the world's wealthiest men and a major philanthropist. Critics accused Rockefeller of engaging in unethical practices, predatory pricing and colluding with railroads. The U.S Supreme Court found Stand Oil in violation of the anti-trust laws and ordered it to dissolve.
