1ST PERSON TO USE STEAM ENGINE TO DRILL FOR OIL

A WAY TO MANUFACTURE STEEL QUICKLY AND CHEAPLY BY BLASTING HOT AIR THROUGH MELTED IRON TO QUICKLY REMOVE IMPURITIES.

This scientist received more than 1,300 patents for a range of items including the automatic telegraph machine, the phonograph, improvements to the light bulb, a modernized telephone and motion picture equipment.

Invented the typewriter

1876 - Invented the telephone.

Completed in 1869 at Promontory, Utah, it linked the eastern railroad system with California's railroad system, revolutionizing transportation in the west

Built manufacturing sleepers and other railroad cars on the prairie miles from the center of Chicago.

a joint-stock company organized in 1863 and reorganized in 1867 to build the Union Pacific Railroad. It was involved in a scandal in 1872 in which high government officials were accused of accepting bribes.

A Supreme Court Case that allowed the government to regulate railroads

Established the ICC (Interstate Commerce Commission) - monitors the business operation of carriers transporting goods and people between states - created to regulate railroad prices

A Scottish-born American industrialist and philanthropist who founded the Carnegie Steel Company in 1892. By 1901, his company dominated the American steel industry.

"Survival of the fittest"

American businessman - founder of Standard Oil Co. (major monopoly)

First federal action against monopolies, it was signed into law by Harrison and was extensively used by Theodore Roosevelt for trust-busting. However, it was initially misused against labor unions

He was the creator of the American Federation of Labor. He provided a stable and unified union for skilled workers.

a federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955

Leader of the American Railway Union, he voted to aid workers in the Pullman strike. He was jailed for six months for disobeying a court order after the strike was over.

a former international labor union and radical labor movement in the United States

Irish immigrant who worked for better conditions for miners