1880s Totally Explained

==Events and Trends==

Technology

Development and commercial production of electric lighting
Development and commercial production of gasoline-powered automobile by Karl Benz, Gottlieb Daimler and Maybach
First commercial production and sales of phonographs and phonograph recordings.
First steel frame construction of "sky-scrapers"
American Society of Mechanical Engineers founded 16 February 1880, New York, N.Y.
Construction begins on the Panama Canal by the French. This is the first attempt to build the Canal.

Science

Heinrich Hertz discovers the photoelectric effect

Michelson-Morley experiment, which suggested that the speed of light is invariant

James-Lange theory of emotion

Literature and Arts

Friedrich Nietzsche publishes Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

Mark Twain publishes Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Fyodor Dostoevsky writes The Brothers Karamazov.

Robert Louis Stevenson publishes Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

First edition of Oxford English Dictionary published.

Arthur Conan Doyle publishes his first Sherlock Holmes tale. Jaco Pastorius

Other

Krakatoa, a volcano in Indonesia, erupts cataclysmically; 36,000 people are killed, the majority by the resulting tsunami

About 300,000 Swedes emigrate to the United States

A major step in Seventh-day Adventist's understanding of Righteousness by Faith occurred in 1888.

People

The last surviving person born in the 1880s, María Capovilla, died on August 27, 2006.

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