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| man that successfully used a steam engine to drill for oil near Tiusville, Pennsylvania |
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| developed around 1850, this technique injected air into molten iron to remove carbon and other impurities from the metal |
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| 1876, established the world's first research laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey (perfected incandescent light bulb) |
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| invented the typewriter in 1867 |
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| ...and Thomas Watson unveiled the telephone in 1876 |
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| Transcontinental Railroad |
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| May 10, 1869 - central pacific and union pacific railroads met to form the first of these |
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| 1880, built a factory for manufacturing sleepers and other railroad cars on the illinois prairie |
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| 1864, stockholders in the union pacific railroad formed this construction company - one of the biggest money-making scams in history |
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| 1877, supreme court case that allowed states the right to regulate railroads |
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| 1887, established the right of the federal government to supervise railroad activities, established ICC |
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| private secretary to the local superintendant of the Pannsylvania railroad, went from Rags to Riches |
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| the buying out of suppliers in order to control raw materials/transportation problems |
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| companies that produce similar products merge |
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| Charles Darwin's theory of biological evolution |
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| established the standard oil comopany |
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| made it illegal to form a trust that interferred with free trade between states/countries |
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| led the cigar maker's international union to join w/ other craft unions in 1866, president of AFoL |
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| American Federation of Labor (AFoL) |
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| focused on collective bargaining (negotiation) to reach written agreements on wages, hours, and working conditions |
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| attempted to form an industrial union- the American Railway Union (ARU) |
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| Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) |
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| also called, "Wobblies" a labor movment that included African Americans |
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| most prominent organizer in the women's labor movement |
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