Links of Interest:
Inventions:
Food: Animal crackers debut, Chili powder is packaged and sold
in Texas. Anderson, Jean American Century Cookbook. p19
Air Conditioner Willis Carrier worked for a
heating and ventilation company. One of the customers was a printing
company that needed 55% humidity and consistent temperature between
70-80 degrees for consistent color. Carrier created fog using a box
to trap air, a couple fans, a garden sprayer and heating coils to
take excess water out of the air. He got a patent in 1906. He formed
Carrier Engineering Corporation with seven other engineers.
Transatlantic Cable
With the completion of a line from British Columbia to New Zealand, telegraph cable now circumnavigates the globe.
The Men Who Built America (Monopolies)
JP Morgan controlled monopolies like General Electric, U.S.
Steel, and a railroad company known as Northern Securities. President Teddy Roosevelt had his Attorney General take Northern Securities to court
citing the Sherman-Trust Act.
Roosevelt boiled everything down to a case of right versus wrong and good versus bad.
If a trust controlled an entire industry but provided good service at reasonable rates, it was a "good" trust to be left alone.
Only the "bad" trusts that jacked up rates and exploited consumers would come under attack.
"The first trust giant to fall victim to
Roosevelt's assault was none other than the most powerful industrialist in the country — J. Pierpont Morgan."
Photography: Edward S. Curtis
(American Photographer of Native Americans 1899-1929)
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