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In the 1890s, Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin would both create the loading coils and receive a patent of them, failing to credit Heaviside's work. [2] 1880–1882: Development and commercial production of electric lighting was underway. Thomas Edison of Milan, Ohio, established Edison Illuminating Company on December 17, 1880.
October 15 – The first blizzard mentioned in Laura Ingalls Wilder 's The Long Winter sweeps over the prairie in Dakota Territory. November 2 – U.S. presidential election, 1880: James Garfield defeats Winfield S. Hancock. November 4 – The first cash register is patented by James and John Ritty of Dayton, Ohio.
v. t. e. The 1900s (pronounced "nineteen-hundreds") was a decade that began on January 1, 1900, and ended on December 31, 1909. The Edwardian era (1901–1910) covers a similar span of time. The term "nineteen-hundreds" is sometimes also used to mean the entire century from January 1, 1900, to December 31, 1999 (the years beginning with "19").
1860–1865. U.S. territorial extent in 1860. 1860 - Pony Express begins. 1860 - Crittenden Compromise. 1860 - South Carolina secedes. 1861 - Abraham Lincoln becomes President. 1861 - Confederate States of America (the Confederacy) established under President Jefferson Davis. 1861 - American Civil War begins at Fort Sumter.
The railway — completed in 1885 — connected Eastern Canada to BC and played an important role in the development of the nation. The railway was first built between eastern Canada and British Columbia between 1881 and 1885 (connecting with Ottawa Valley and Georgian Bay area lines built earlier), fulfilling a commitment extended to British Columbia when it entered Confederation in 1871; it ...
1900: Max Planck: explains the emission spectrum of a black body. 1905: Albert Einstein: theory of special relativity, explanation of Brownian motion, and photoelectric effect. 1906: Walther Nernst: Third law of thermodynamics. 1907: Alfred Bertheim: Arsphenamine, the first modern chemotherapeutic agent.
