The History of U.S. Business

By emmons.taylor20
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    United States Business History

  • Civil War Begins

  • Typewriter Invented and Sold

  • Electric Light Invented and Sold

  • Petrol-Engine Car Invented and Sold

  • Hallmark gets its start

  • Ford introduces the assembly line

  • World War 1 begins

  • The Panama Canal Opens

  • New York's WEAF broadcasts the first radio ad

  • Beginning of The Great Depression

  • The Great Crash of 1929

  • King Kullen, the first U.S. supermarket, opens

  • The first DC-3 flight

  • Hoover Dam is completed

  • World War 2 started

  • The first commercial television broadcast

  • The baby boom begins

  • Three Bell Labs scientists invent the transistor

  • Disneyland Opens

  • Eisenhower creates the interstates

  • The first Japanese car, a Toyota, is sold in the U.S.

  • Eisenhower signs the act creating NASA

  • Kroc buys McDonald's

  • The first Wal-Mart opens

  • Valium is introduced

  • Intel invents the single-chip microprocessor

  • Southwest Airlines begins flying

  • The OPEC oil shock

  • Federal Express begins operations

  • Microsoft is tapped to provide the IBM operating system

  • ISM Band- WiFi- released for unlicensed use

  • The Black Monday Crash

  • Bombing of The World Trade Center

  • First line of Apple iPod's released