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1881 to 1900
This page of the timeline covers -
1881
death of Billy the Kid
Postal Orders introduced in UK
first New Zealand telephone exchange in Christchurch
first successful long-distance telephone line (Boston-Providence,
US)
Commercial Bank of Australia buys Mercantile Bank, Sydney
1882
first wirephotos
Union Générale in France crashes
Hobart Stock Exchange opens
first national US ad (by P&G for Ivory soap)
289 million passengers on US railways
Stillwell invents brown paper bag
Austria establishes world's first postal Giro money transfer
Bell Labs established
1883
S Z de Ferranti Ltd founded
Munster v Lamb
last known Quagga in captivity dies in Amsterdam Zoo
Union for the Protection of Industrial Property
Deutsche Edison Gesellschaft (DEG) founded by Emil Rathenau
1884
early version of television technology - Nipkow scanning
disk
R. v Dudley and Stephens
long distance telephone calls
electric tabulator
Waterman's fountain pen
Brisbane Stock Exchange opens
International Meridian Conference
first US roller-coaster
1885
von Welsbach patents incandescent mantle
AT&T formed
Marquand's electric Logic Machine
cylinder-based dictating machines
coated photo printing paper made by Eastman
Pasteur's rabies vaccine
1886
Mergenthaler's linotype machine
Sears Roebuck, forerunner of Amazon.com, starts mail-order
business
BHP incorporated
English International Copyright Act
General Electric Apparatus Company (GEA) founded in UK
by Binswanger and Hirst
first Berne Copyright Convention
Coca-Cola syrup invented
Arthur D Little founded
Hollerith forms Tabulating Machine Company
1887
est. 5,400 cash registers in US (increases to 16,900 in
1890)
Felt's calculator
UK telegraph companies control 107,000 miles of submarine
cable
celluloid film
Adelaide Stock Exchange opens
US Interstate Commerce Act
Berliner invents phonographic disk
DEG becomes Allgemeine Elektrizitäts Gesellschaft
(AEG)
Comptometer multifunction adding machine
1888
Kodak box camera
Hertz proves existence of radio waves
Harlow Bundy creates Bundy Key Recorder
coin-operated public telephone
US judge Thomas Cooley characterises privacy as "the
right to be left alone"
Burroughs patents adding machine
Büttner's calculator
Printer's Ink launched as pioneering advertising
industry journal
1889
Hollerith's punch
card machine used in US census
Strowger patents automatic telephone exchange
GEA becomes UK General Electric Co (GEC)
Cooper v Stuart
French telephone network is nationalised
Indecent Advertisements Act 1889 in UK
first Official Secrets Act in UK
Gerard Philips becomes AEG representative in The Netherlands
Perth Stock Exchange opens
1890
AB Dick markets mimeograph
zipper
rotogravure press
US National Weather Service (NWS) established
first execution by electric chair
Intergovernmental Organization for International Carriage
by Rail
Bollee's calculator
90% of US financial transactions (by value) involve cheques
520 million passengers on US railways
20,000 telephones in Sweden
nationalisation of telephone networks in France
Mannesmann founded
Cooley's characterisation of privacy enshrined in Warren
& Brandeis' HLR article on 'The Right To Privacy'
Barings financial crisis in London
1891
telephoto lens for camera
first telephone link between London & Paris
International Copyright Convention
Gerard Philips
establishes incandescent lamp company in Eindhoven, later
NV Philips
Canby & Ozias incorporate The Computing Scale Company
1892
Edison and Dickson invent peepshow Kinetoscope
Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Company
four colour rotary press
enabling legislation for private limited liability companies
- Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung
(GmbH) - in Germany
portable typewriters
General Electric (GE)
formed through merger of Edison General Electric &
Thomson-Houston Electric
New Zealand Offensive Publications Act 1892
AT&T connects New York with Chicago by telephone
1893
financial panic in US
end of Land Boom and financial crisis in Australia
Coca-Cola trademark registered
La Fontaine & Otlet establish Institut international
de bibliographie
Steiger's calculator
auto number plates introduced in France
Banca d'Italia founded
Hall's braille writer
Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Co case in UK
1894
Marconi invents wireless telegraphy
Dewey's School and Society
1895
Lumière Bros invent Cinématograph
Friese-Greene invents phototypesetting
Kellogg's Corn Flakes
first Times Atlas of the World
Budapest gains first European subway
1896
first edition of Daily
Mail
Henry Ford builds Quadricycle
Underwood model permits typists to see what they are typing
X-ray photography invented
first US cinema opens
UK Locomotives on Highways Act increases speed
limit for self-propelled vehicles to 12 mph
British Thomson-Houston formed
1897
Braun invents cathode-ray tube
Wilkinson v Downton
General Electric creates corporate publicity department
Hermann Helmholtz' Die elektromagnetische theorie des
lichts
telephone penetration in US is 7 per 1,000 people
Salomon v Salomon & Co Ltd [UK]
William Harbutt invents Plasticine
Durkheim's Suicide
Comité Maritime International
UK telegraph companies control 162,000 miles of submarine
cable worth £40m
1898
photographs taken by artificial light
New York State passes law against misleading advertising
Compagnie Générale d'Electricité
(CGE) established
Northern Electric & Manufacturing (later Nortel) founded
Chicago Mercantile Exchange founded
1899
loudspeaker invented
electron discovered
Harrington Emerson founds prototype management consulting
company
Johan Vaaler invents paperclip
magnetic sound recording
American Marconi Company (forerunner of RCA)
founded
Burroughs Adding Machine Company founded
Eiffel Tower
Sprint founded as Brown Telephone Co in Abilene, US
NEC established in Japan
Thorstein Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class
1900
Kodak Brownie
est. 1.4 million telephones, 8,000 registered automobiles
and 24 million electric light bulbs in US
'television' coined in France
price of 'chemical' wood pulp reaches US$36 per tonne,
down from US$344 per tonne in 1866
Jellinek's Allgemeine Staatslehre
Marconi forms Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Co in UK
Bell System recapitalised as AT&T (US$120m assets,
0.8m phones)
Fairchild forms International Time Recording Company in
US
Georg Simmel's Philosophie des Geldes
6,000 accountants in England
130,000 horses working in Manhattan
Bachelier's The Theory of Speculation
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(1901 - 1925)
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