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On August 28, 1859 George Bissell and Edwin L. Drake made the fist successful oil production in Titusville, Pennsylvania.
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The Transcontinental railroad is completed in 1869 and is 1,912 miles long and connects Omaha, Nebraska, Iowa and the Pacific Coast in San Francisco.
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Supreme Court Ordered the dissolution of Standard Oil Company, ruling it was in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act. John D Rockefeller entered the oil industry in the 1860s and in 1870, and found the company with some other business partners.
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Carnegie Steel Company was a steel producing company primarily created by Andrew Carnegie and several close associates, to manage businesses at steel mills in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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On March 7, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for the telephone.
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President Rutherford B. Hayes has the White House's first telephone installed in the mansion s telegraph room.
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Thomas Edison perfects the first commercially practical incandescent light bulb.
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Four standard time zones for the continental United States were introduced on November 18, 1883.
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The Richmond Union Passenger Railway, in Richmond, Virginia, was the first practical electric trolley (tram) system, and set the pattern for most subsequent electric trolley systems around the world.
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The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was the first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices. The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 was the first measure passed by the U.S. Congress to prohibit trusts.
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United States Steel Corporation, leading U.S. producer of steel and related products, founded in 1901.
