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Post civil war world events and business
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Luis Pastor Invents the Vaccine
Modern medicine and pharmaceuticals would be much different if it was not for Pastor's invention. He saved countless lives and has allowed the US to abolish certain diseases by immunizing against them. -
Alexander Graham Bell Patents the Telephone
The telephone began a new phenomenon in communication. Little did Alexander know how much the telephone would change over the next century eventually resulting in the cell phone which now is a staple to everyday life. -
Thomas Edison Completes His Lightbulb
Edison's lightbulb was the first of its kind, his lightbulb was able to last much longer than anything else on the market and, matched with his electric generators, allowed for practical cost efficient lighting. -
Karl Benz Invents the First Practical Automobile Powered by a Four Stroke Internal Combustion Engine
Before Henry Ford could make the auto industry practical and super profitable, Karl Benz, invented what we now know as the modern automobile. -
Tesla Invents the AC Motor and Transformer
Tesla's advancements in electrical engineering were much ahead of his time and we owe much of our modern electrical infrastructure to his inventions in the late 1800s. -
Wright Brothers Complete Their First Flight
The Wright Brothers were the first to successfully take flight with a motorized airplane and set in motion a transportation industry that would help to connect the world like never before. -
Upton Sinclair Publishes The Jungle
The Jungle opened many peoples eyes to the grim conditions of the meat packing industry in the early 1900s , the movement that followed lead to the creation of the FDA in the future, and helped to clean up the food industry as a whole. -
Standard Oil vs Supreme Court
The Supreme Court ruled against Standard Oil requiring them to break up into several different companies. They made them do this because Standard Oil had turned into a monopoly which was illegal. This event showed the governments willingness to get involved in the private business world -
Henry Ford Introduces His Assembly Line
When Henry Ford introduced the assembly line to his automobile plants he changed the world of industry forever. Now he could produce much more product for much less of a price simply by breaking down the process into increments and having certain people specify on each increment. -
Archduke of Austria-Hungary, Franz Ferdinand is Assassinated
This assassination is the spark that started the first world war, the first great war helped to boost the US economy even before the US got involved, by exporting goods including weapons to the European countries. -
Stock Market Begins to Crash
This date, known as Black Tuesday, is the single worst day the US stock market has ever seen and signaled the beginning of the Great Depression. -
First Super Market Opens
When King Kullen opened it became the first super market of its kind, giving birth to such stores as Wal-Mart. This era signifies the slow death of the "mom and pop" store at the hand of big business. -
Hitler Invades Poland
The invasion of Poland by the Nazis began the second world war, a war that would drag on for years and help the US to pull out of the Great Depression and become a true world super power both militarily and economically. -
William Levitt builds the first modern development
Levitt used Ford's process of the assembly line to build cookie cutter homes, these homes were simply but yet could be produced for a cheap price. His process has led to many more americans being able to afford homes of their own as well as the loss of millions of acres of farm land. -
OPEC Oil Crisis
Politics may have led to the OPEC oil crisis but its the citizens who suffered the lines and travel restrictions as result. This event opened up the eyes of many to how much the US leaned on foreign energies, specifically foreign oil. -
Apple Computer Company Inc is Founded
No company would better ride the wave of the technological exsplosion that was to come than Apple. Essentially they represent just how much the world has been impacted by technology in the last 40 years. -
Americans With Disabilities Act is Signed
Racial bias has been illegal in the workplace for years now and finally the court put into action legal works to include those with physical and mental disabilities on the list. -
Terrorist Attack on the World Trade Center
Four planes go down, thousands of lives are lost, and the face of the earth is changed forever. Security will never be the same -
Facebook is Launched
Facebook became the first real social media power house. The company is now worth billions and has grown off of the internet, something that wasn't even available half a century before. Facebook helped to show that the electronic boom was here to stay. -
The US Economy Begins to Decline
The housing bubble finally pops and the economy begins to tank, within the next year the united States will face their biggest economic crisis since the Great Depression -
Crude Oil Hits 147$ a Barrel
Even though the US economy was experiencing a recession the prices of energy were sky rocketing due to an all time high for the price of crude oil. This further taxed an already weakened economy. -
Hurricane Sandy Hits East Coast
Hurricane Sandy causes 65 Billion dollars in damages, giving boost to alot of businesses that had been struggling from the recent recession.
