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Industrial Revolution
Industrial Revolution by Evan and Aveen. -
Henry Bessemer Creates the Bessemer Process
The Bessemer Process was the first process by which steel could be mass produced. -
J.P. Morgan's Career Begins As An Accountant
Morgan was an accountant with the New York banking firm of Duncan Sherman and Company. -
John D. Rockefeller Formed A Partnership With Maurice B. Clark
With $4,000 in capital, the two entrepreneurs traded in grain, hay, and meats. -
Edwin Drake Drilled The First Successful Oil Well
Edwin Drake drilled the first successful oil well in Titusville, Pennsylvania producing 1,500 barrels of oil a day with Standard Oil Company. -
Crédit Mobilier Scandal Occurs
Illegal manipulation of contracts by a construction and finance company associated with the building of the Union Pacific Railroad became the incident that started the Crédit Mobilier Scandal. The construction of the railroad was manipulated by a few men who took lots of money for the railroad, and ended up impoverishing the railroad. -
Christopher Sholes Patents The First Working Typewriter
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Railroad Workers Finish The First Transcontinental Rail Road
Workers joined the tracks at Promontory Point in Utah in 1869, thus creating the first transcontinental railroad. -
Rockefeller and Partners Founded The Standard Oil Company Of Ohio
Pictured is Rockefeller. -
Thomas Edison Invents Many Devices Used In Modern Day
Thomas Edison created the incandescent lamp, electric power station, telegraph, telephone, phonograph, and motion pictures. -
Alexander Graham Bell Formed The Bell Telephone Company
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Munn v. Illinois Court Case
The Case was over whether Illinois had the authority to regulate the prices charged by grain elevators. Elevator owners argued that regulation interfered with federal commerce powers and took away their due process of law as guaranteed by the 14th Amendment. Pictured is Morrison Remick Waite, the judge on the case. -
Bell Establishes Volta Laboratory Association
He works for deaf and invents the photophone here. -
The Haymarket Square Riot Occurred In Chicago, Illinois
A bomb exploded among a group of policemen as they attempted to disperse a giant labor rally in the city's Haymarket Square. The explosion killed seven policemen and injured 70 people. -
Interstate Commerce Act
It represented a congressional response to the calls for railroad regulations, but also because it established the first of many federal regulatory commissions, the ICC. -
Congress Passed The Sherman Antitrust Act
The act created by John Sherman was the first federal law to regulate large corporations and trusts and eliminate monopolies. -
Mary "Mother" Jones Becomes Affiliated With The United Mine Workers
"Mother" Jones began organizing women's auxiliaries to unions and attacking child labor practices in the South, and The United Mine Workers was one of these groups. -
Carnegie Steel Workers Went On Strike
In Homestead, Pennsylvania, workers in the Carnegie Steel Manufacturing Plant were fearful of losing their jobs, angry over pay cuts, and unwilling to surrender their labor union. -
Governor John Peter Altgeld Pardoned Surviving Prisoners From The Haymarket Square Riot
The Illinois Govenor claimed that three prisoners from the riot had never received a fair trial. -
Eugene Debs Organized The American Railway Union
The ARU became the nation's first industrial union. -
Workers At The Pullman Palace Car Company In Pullman, Illinois Called A Strike
This became one of the most famous clashes between labor and capital in the United States. The strike rose to historical importance after the American Railway Union orchestrated a boycott in support of the striking workers. -
J.P. Morgan Finances The Creation of The Federal Steel Company
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J.P. Morgan Joins In Forming The United States Steel Corporation
The corporation was made from the Federal Steel Company, Carnegie Steel Company, and other steel companies. The United States Steel Corporation becomes the world's first billion-dollar corporation. Pictured is Andrew Carnegie, the founder of Carnegie Steel Company. -
Mary "Mother" Jones Attracted Public Attention To A Coal Miner's Strike
Mary Jones did so by directing the strikers' wives to attack strikebreaks with brooms and mops. -
Henry Ford forms the Ford Motor Company
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The Wright Brothers' First Flight Occured
Took Place in Kill Devil Hills near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Orville Wright was at the controls. -
Lochner v. New York Court Case
At issue was a New York law limiting the work hours of bakers to 10 hours a day and six days a week. Limited work hours in the week were wanted, as workers felt over worked. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. is pictured; he was a man who thought work limits were rather unnecessasary.
