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Alexander Graham Bell received the first patent for an “apparatus for transmitting vocal or other sounds telegraphically,” a device he called the telephone. It features an iron diaphragm, two electromagnets and a horseshoe permanent magnet. -
Battle fought between the forces of Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada, those of Porfirio Díaz, and the President of Mexico. Resulted in a victory for Díaz. -
The Compromise of 1877 was an informal agreement between southern Democrats and allies of the Republican Rutherford Hayes to settle the result of the 1876 presidential election and marked the end of the Reconstruction era. -
After Porfirio Díaz's victory at the Battle of Tecoac, he subsequently assumed presidency. -
Decisive six-month war in Southern Africa, resulting in British victory over the Zulus. -
Thomas Edison decided to try a carbonized cotton thread filament. When voltage was applied to the completed bulb, it began to radiate a soft orange glow. -
War between Chile, Bolivia, and Peru that resulted in Chilean annexation of valuable disputed territory on the Pacific coast.
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Karl Benz invented the three-wheeled Patent Motor Car that weighed about 100 kilograms -- very light by the standards of the period. The horizontal, single-cylinder four-stroke engine had a displacement of 954 cubic centimeters and developed an output of 0.55 kW at an engine speed of 400 rpm. -
The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 is a federal statute which prohibits activities that restrict interstate commerce and competition in the marketplace. -
War between the United States and Spain that ended Spanish colonial rule in the Americas and resulted in U.S. acquisition of territories in the western Pacific and Latin America.