The ten most important events in American industrial history

[JKSCHW at aol.com]

I have been asked by a documentary filmmaker who is doing a short (12 min.?) film on US industrial history for a pretty mainstream context what are the 10 absolutely must-include events, preferably with a bias towards stuff for which there exists film. Given the context and the buyer it cannot be all militant/labor radical stuff. The call is for stuff related to industry, not just radical labor.

The following list occurs to me. I am not trying at this point to limit it to 10. Please add, cut, rank. Thanks.

The discovery of the steam engine and/or cotton gin
The completion of the transcontinental railroad/Chinese immigration to build it
The formation of the great Trusts: Standard Oil, US Steel
The Haymarket rally/8 hour day
The ARU strike and/or the Homestead strike (a Penna event)
Ford's Model T assembly line, Blacks move north to get factory jobs
The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire/ILWGU
The Lawrence Strike/IWW
Something about the CIO--the UMW battles (very important in Penna), maybe the Ford Hunger Strikers?
The signing of the NLRA
Industry/labor in WWII: women in the industrial workforce, Rosie the Riveter
The Treaty of Detroit
The civil rights movement and the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Something about the computer industry, what? IBM, Microsoft
Something about deindustrialization, moving offshore, maybe US Steel gets out of the steel biz?, becomes USX
The breaking of the PATCO strike
Something about the service economy, what?
???

--jks