Ulysses S. Grant, Eighteenth U.S. President
(1869-1877)
Transit of Venus
Venus visible between the Earth and Sun. The transit of Venus happens in pairs every 105 years or so. See
1882 for
next passing.
Source: NASA,
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Technology:
Brooklyn Bridge
Work continues on towers and anchorages. 5 years down, 9 to go to finish.
It's magnificent twin towers, breathtaking span, cutting edge
technology, and sheer beauty make Brooklyn Bridge the grandest,
and perhaps the most important structure built in America during
the nineteenth century. It was called "the eighth wonder of the
world."
Curlee, Lynn Brooklyn Bridge New York: Atheneum Books, 2001.
The Men Who Built America
Eades Bridge (one mile long) is completed linking East St. Louis, Illinois across the Mississippi River to St. Louis, Missouri
to extend railroads further west.
Carnegie used English inventor Henry Bessemer’s new technology that was able to cut down the time to make a single steel
rail from two weeks to 15 minutes. Orders from other railroads that
needed to upgrade their infrastructure came pouring in for steel
rails but due to the financial panic the year before and many
railroads shutting down Carnegie found new customers in building
skycrapers in the cities where the population was fleeing to find
jobs and needed housing in densely populated areas so he went up.
Carnegie built a steel empire.