Not much really.
The government did not really govern the big business and they could basically do what they pleased. But as the journalists and writers and the workers started bringing all the bad things the big businesses were doing to the light of day the government started intervening just a little. A landmark law passed at the time would be the <span> Sherman Act that was against the trusts. </span>
I do believe the early Egyptians, being as smart as they where used a interesting method of a sundial. It caught the suns shadow and they where able to use it to tell the time.
The government restricted the reservation lands by setting boundaries for each tribe
<span>On his first voyage in 1534, Cartier
sailed westward from France across the Arctic Ocean. It was during this
journey that he named the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. He returned to France
dejected, though, because he had been unable to sell any watches.</span>