1875 to 1900 Timeline Outline

Invention of Calculators Using a True Variable-Toothed Gear
(Circa 1875)

Printing Two Sides of Paper Simultaneously
(1875)

The First Logarithmic Table Produced by a Calculating Machine
(1875)

The Electric Pen
(1875)

Shepardizing
(1875)

The First Significant Series of Illustrations in a Daily Newspaper
(June 30, 1875)

Dewey Decimal Classification
(1876 – 1885)

The Earliest Exhibition Exclusively of Scientific Instruments
(1876)

The First Comprehensive Global Study of Zoogeography, Including the first Global Biodiversity Map
(1876 – December 2012)

The Last Library Cataloguing Code Written by One Person
(1876)

Among the Most Unusual of Library Organizations: The Light House Traveling Library
(1876)

Bell Invents and Patents the Telephone
(March 10, 1876)

ALA is Founded
(October 6, 1876)

The First Regular Telephone Line
(1877)

300 Clerks Reviewing 2,500,000 Insurance Policies with 24 Calculators
(1877)

The First Telephone Switchboard
(1877)

Pioneering Study of Community Ecology
(1877)

The First Book in English on "Machine Printing"
(1877)

The First Supersonic Image; The Mach Angle and Mach Number
(1877)

Standardization of Library Catalogue Cards
(1877)

The First American Bibliography on the History of Printing
(1877)

Emile Berliner Invents the Microphone
(March 4, 1877)

The Caxton Quadricentennial Celebration: Probably the Largest Exhibition on the History of Printing Ever Held
(June 30 – September 1, 1877)

Formation of the Bell Telephone Company, then the American Bell Telephone Company
(July 9, 1877 – March 1880)

Edison Invents the Phonograph
(August 12, 1877)

David Hughes Invents the Loose-Contact Carbon Microphone
(1878)

Allowing the Typing of Both Upper and Lower Case Letters
(1878)

Invention of the Integraph
(1878)

Invention of Photogravure
(1878)

Recording Scientific Results Graphically
(1878)

Perhaps the Earliest Antiquarian Bookseller's Catalogue Illustrated with Plates Printed in Color
(1878)

The First Regular Telephone Exchange is Established in New Haven, Connecticut
(January 1878)

Edison Describes Future Uses for his Phonograph
(June 1878)

Listening to the Earliest Surviving Recording of a Musical Performance
(June 22, 1878 – October 2012)

The First Telephone Directory is Published in New Haven, Connecticut
(November 1878)

The Cash Register
(1879)

The Light Bulb
(1879)

The First Extensively Used Scientific Method of Criminal Identification
(1879)

Index Medicus Begins
(1879)

Foundation of Modern Mathematical Logic
(1879)

One of the Earliest Systems of Television Transmission
(1880)

A Landmark in Efforts to Organize Information and Make it Searchable
(1880)

The First Separate Publication on Television
(1880)

Could Life From Other Planets Have Been Carried to Earth by Meteorites?
(1880)

The First Wireless Telephone Communication
(April 1, 1880)

Fingerprints as a System of Identification
(October 8, 1880)

The First Complete Catalogue of the British Museum Following Panizzi's Rules
(1881 – 1905)

A Physician-Librarian Suggests the Idea for Electric Punched Card Tabulating
(1882)

3,500,000 Quotations on Individual Slips of Paper
(1882 – 1884)

Richard Owen Calls Darwin the "Copernicus of Biology"
(November 5, 1882)

Invention of the Linotype
(1883 – July 15, 1885)

Imagining a Library One Hundred Years in the Future
(1883)

The First Carnegie Library
(1883)

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
(1884)

The Mimeograph
(1884)

NCR
(1884)

The American Historical Association
(1884)

The First Scientific Study of the Effects of Cocaine
(1884)

The World's Oldest Running Automobile
(1884)

Foundation of The Grolier Club
(January 23, 1884)

The O E D Finally Begins Publication
(February 1, 1884)

Development of an Efficiently Functioning Fountain Pen
(Circa February 12, 1884)

Daimler Invents the Internal Combustion Engine
(1885)

The First Automobile
(1885)

"Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology"
(1885)

AT&T is Founded
(March 3, 1885 – 1892)

Prayerbook Woven by the Jacquard Loom
(1886 – 1887)

Formation of the National Audubon Society
(1886)

The First Book on Aerial Photography
(1886)

The First Application of the Linotype
(July 3, 1886)

The First Photo-Interview
(September 5, 1886)

The Berne Convention
(September 9, 1886)

The Flat Disc Gramophone
(1887)

Hertz Proves the Existence of Electromagnetic Waves
(1887)

The Comptometer
(1887)

Imaginary Historical Biographies
(1887 – 1889)

First Use of the Term "Credit Card"
(1887)

Aquatic Ecosystem Science
(1887)

The First Book Typeset by Linotype
(1887)

Establishment of the First Library School, the "School of Library Economy"
(1887)

The Monotype is Invented
(June 7, 1887)

The First Practical Moving Picture Camera & an Early Motion Picture Display Device
(1888 – 1894)

Gregg Shorthand
(1888)

Historical Graphic Interpretation of Man's Quest for Knowledge of the Universe
(1888)

The Telautograph
(July 31, 1888)

One of the Most Dramatic Problems in the Preservation of Media
(1889)

The Most Complete Work on Babbage's Computers
(1889)

Electromechanical Punched Card Tabulating
(1889)

77 Windmill Factories Employ 1,100 Workers in the U.S.
(1889)

The First Textbook of Mechanical Flight
(1889)

The First Electric Subway System
(1890)

Publication of the Tables of de Prony
(1891)

Nomograms: A Graphical Method of Calculation
(1891)

The Invention of "Basket Ball" (Basketball)
(December 1891)

The Burroughs Dependable Key-Driven Printing Adding Machine
(1892)

Electromagnetic Waves: the Basis for Radio
(1892)

Finger Prints as a Means of Identification
(1892)

Stepanov System of Dance Notation
(1892)

The Earliest Miniature Printed Editions of the Qur'an
(1892 – 1900)

The Sierra Club
(May 28, 1892)

The First Animated Films
(October 28, 1892)

The Millionaire Calculator
(1893)

The First Production Automobiles
(1893 – 1894)

The First Known Motion Picture with Live-Recorded Sound: Invention of the Kinetophone
(1893 – 1895)

The First International Exhibition of Mathematical Devices
(September 1893)

The First Successful Gas-Engine Automobile Built in the United States
(September 21, 1893 – 1895)

The First Systematic Classification of Calculating Machines
(1894)

The First Moving Picture
(Circa 1894 – March 19, 1895)

The First Organized and Published Collection of Aviation Research
(1894)

The Palmer Method
(1894)

The First Silent Movie Copyrighted in the U. S.
(January 9, 1894)

Invention of Radio
(1895)

An Analog Search Engine to Organize All the World's Knowledge
(1895)

The First Mainline Railway is Electrified
(1895)

About 240,000 Telephones Are in Use in the U.S.A.
(1895)

The Origin of Psychoanalysis
(1895)

The Invention of Cinematography
(February 13, 1895)

The First Private Screening of a Motion Picture
(March 22, 1895)

The First Public Screening of a Film at the World's First and Oldest Cinema
(September 28, 1895)

Rontgen Discovers X-Rays
(November 8, 1895)

The First Public Commerical Screening of Films
(December 28, 1895)

Ancestor of IBM
(1896)

Northcliff Founds the Daily Mail; Circulation Soon Reaches 1,000,000
(1896)

The Largest and Most Diverse Collection of Medieval Manuscripts in the World
(1896 – 1902)

The First to Quantify the Impact of Carbon Dioxide on the Greenhouse Effect
(1896)

The Monotype Converts to Hot-Metal Casting
(1896)

Foundation of the Dow Jones Industrial Average
(May 26, 1896)

The First Cathode Ray Tube
(1897)

The Library of Congress Classification
(1897)

The First Automobile Assembly Line
(August 21, 1897 – 1901)

The Questionable Quality of Paper
(1898)

The Garden City Movement
(1898)

Standardization of Archival Practice
(1898)

Lewis Carroll Wrote or Received 98,000 Letters
(January 14, 1898)

The Cumulative Book Index
(February 1898)

The Last Great Original Work in Science to be Published First as a Monograph Rather than in a Scientific Journal
(November 4, 1899)

Perhaps the Earliest Example of Stop-Motion Animation
(December 1899)