1885 to 1889

1885

may - George Westinghouse, head of the Westinghouse Electric Company buys the patent rights to Tesla's ?+ polyphase system of a-c dynamos, transformers, and motors.
x - Volume 2 of Das Kapital [eng.tran.1907] by Karl Marx is published.
x - |Germany ? |automobile ?| Karl Benz is the first to put an automobile into production, a three-wheeler.
x - Dictating machines are bought for offices.
x - Eastman makes coated photo printing paper.
x - U.S. Post Office offers special delivery.
x - Trains are delivering newspapers daily.
x - Indian National Congress formed.
x - |Japan] A political cabinet, modeled after the German cabinet, is organized
x - The Congo Free State is placed under the sovereignty of King Leopold II of Belgium.
x - Edgar Degas ?¢ paints "The Bakers Wife"

1886

x - |STATUS| There are 250,000 telephones in use around the world
x - The Berne Convention provides the basis for development of international norms with regard to copyright [est. 1710 in UK] protection
x - English Translation of Volume 1 is Das Kapital [orig.1867] by Karl Marx is published.
x - Ludwig II of Bavaria is declared insane and dies.
x - The Royal Niger Company is granted a charter to govern the British Oil Rivers Proctorate in southern Nigeria.
x - A pharmacist creates Coca-Cola as a "headache tonic".
x - Graphophone's wax cylinder and sapphire stylus improve sound.
x - Mergenthaler constructs a linotype machine for setting type.
x - |Germany ? |automobile ?| Gottlieb Daimler puts a four-wheel, gasoline-powered automobile into production.

1887

nov 23 - William Pratt (Boris Karloff) is born [d.feb 02, 1969]
x - Celluloid film.
x - Montgomery Ward mails out a 540-page catalog.
x - Berliner gets music from a flat disc stamped out by machine.
x - Comptometer multi-function adding machine is manufactured.
x - "Three Emperors' League" resigned as the Reinsurance Treaty.
x - The first story containing Sherlock Holmes is published.
x - The language Esperanto is invented by a polish physician.

1888

x - An institute to treat rabbies is founded as a result of Louis Pasteur's research.
x - "Jack the Ripper" murders six women in London.
x - "Kodak" box camera makes picture taking simple.
x - Heinrich Hertz proves the existence of radio waves.
x - The coin-operated public telephone.
x - Edison's phonograph is manufactured for sale to the public.

1889

sep 26 - The Meter is re-defined to make the standard more accurate.
x - Herman Hollerith patents first data processing computer.
x - Alexander G. Eiffel designs the Eiffel Tower.
x - |Japan ?¢] A new constitution is promulgated.
x - Herman Hollerith counts the population with punch cards.
x - Strowger, Kansas City undertaker, invents automatic telephone exchange.
x - Eiffel Tower at the Universal Exhibition

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