1882
In the east in 1882, titans of science and industry were transforming the world—Edison created the country’s first commercial power plant, which he showed off by lighting up one square mile of lower Manhattan. That same year, John D. Rockefeller created the Standard Oil Trust, a mind-boggling maze of corporate accounting that allowed him to consolidate his power into a single monopoly, but the West was wild as ever. Outlaw Jesse James was shot and killed that year by a rival gunman.
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