* 1888 – Thomas Green Clemson dies, bequeathing his estate to the State of South Carolina to establish Clemson Agricultural College.

* 1888 – An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's " The Lost Chord ", one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London, England.

Gerrit Thomas Rietveld ( 24 June 1888 – 25 June 1964 ) was a Dutch furniture designer and architect.

* 1807 – Thomas Green Clemson, American politician and educator, founded Clemson University ( d. 1888 )

* 1888 – Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph ( the first movie ).

* Norwood, Thomas Manson ( 1888 ).

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While Catholic scholars maintain that More's attitude in composing Utopia was largely ironic and that he was an orthodox Christian, Marxist theoretician Karl Kautsky argued in the book Thomas More and his Utopia ( 1888 ) that Utopia was a shrewd critique of economic and social exploitation in pre-modern Europe and that More was one of the key intellectual figures in the early development of socialist ideas.

In 1888, American inventor and entrepreneur Thomas Alva Edison conceived of a device that would do " for the Eye what the phonograph does for the Ear ".

* P. b. papuanus ( Thomas, 1888 )

Thomas Edward Lawrence, CB, DSO ( 16 August 1888 — 19 May 1935 ), known professionally as T. E. Lawrence, was a British Army officer renowned especially for his liaison role during the Arab Revolt against Ottoman Turkish rule of 1916 – 18.

Lawrence was born illegitimate in Tremadog, Wales, in August 1888 to Sir Thomas Chapman and Sarah Junner, a governess who was herself illegitimate.

In 1888, he was selected by the incumbent president, Grover Cleveland, as his vice presidential running mate, because Vice President Thomas Hendricks had died in office.

William McKinley, of Ohio, was defeated by Thomas B. Reed to be Speaker of the House after the 1888 elections.

On February 27, 1888, a couple of days after photographic pioneer Eadweard Muybridge gave a lecture not far from the laboratory of Thomas Edison, the two inventors privately met.

This story is repeated uncritically in some later histories, and subsequently " Malgo the Briton " is mentioned in Thomas Stephens ' notes on an 1888 publication of Y Gododdin, with the stated suggestion that Maelgwn was an ally of " Aeddan " against the Pictish king Bridei.

Brockman sold parts of the lease in 1888 to ornithologist Thomas Carter including Yardie Creek and Ningaloo Station.

In phase two ( 1878 to 1888 ), with work completed by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, commanded by Lt. Col. Thomas L. Casey, white marble for the exterior was used from a different Cockeysville quarry.

The Town of Purvis was incorporated on February 25, 1888 and was founded by and named after Thomas Melville Purves, originally of Marion County, Alabama.

The town of Stem was established as a separate and distinct entity from Tally Ho township in 1888 by William Thomas Stem.

* William Thomas Hamilton ( 1820 – 1888 ), Governor of Maryland ( 1880 – 1884 )

* University of Scranton, Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA, founded in 1888 as St. Thomas College, renamed in 1938

Nevertheless, the rules continued to differ by region until the first attempt to set them in order was made by a congress of Skat players on Saturday, 7 August 1886 in Altenburg, being the first official rules finally published in book form in 1888 by Theodor Thomas of Leipzig.

According to legend, Thomas W. Holley of Holyoke, Massachusetts invented the legal pad around the year 1888 when he innovated the idea to collect all the sortings, various sort of substandard paper scraps from various factories, and stitch them together in order to sell them as pads at an affordable and fair price.

* Madeleine Edison ( 1888 – 1979 ), who married John Eyre Sloane.

In 1888, Edison deployed a system of signaling on the Lehigh Valley Railroad.

First described in conceptual terms by U. S. inventor Thomas Edison in 1888, it was largely developed by his employee William Kennedy Laurie Dickson between 1889 and 1892.

No such collaboration was undertaken, but in October 1888, Edison filed a preliminary claim, known as a caveat, with the U. S. Patent Office announcing his plans to create a device that would do " for the Eye what the phonograph does for the Ear ".

Marvin was called the Edison of manufacturing for his innovations in the bakery business — by 1888 the largest in the United States — and the centerpiece to the organization of the National Biscuit Company ( Nabisco ).

Previously, the earliest known recording of vocal music was an 1888 Edison wax cylinder phonograph recording of a Handel choral concert.

George Edward Gouraud recorded him on behalf of Thomas Edison on the evening of 5 October 1888.

Along with other Edison assistants such as Samuel Insull, John Kruesi, Francis Upton, and Edward H. Johnson, Batchelor was an investor in Edison manufacturing enterprises, beginning with the Edison Electric Light Company ( 1878 ), and continuing with the Edison Lamp Company ( 1880 ), the Edison Machine Works ( 1881 ), which Batchelor managed between 1884 and 1888, and the Edison General Electric Company ( 1888 ).

He then created the North American Phonograph Company in 1888 to consolidate the national sales rights of both the Graphophone and the Edison Speaking Phonograph.

A Gospel mission hall dating from 1888 at Moor End now meets as the Elim Christian Centre in the centre of the village near the large estate area.

Emma Elizabeth Smith was viciously assaulted and robbed in Osborn Street, the part of Brick Lane that meets Whitechapel High Street, in the early hours of 3 April 1888.

* Terence St. Trewes, a young Oxford undergraduate whom Ned meets when he first arrives in 1888.

After correspondence with Miss Packard and to the joy of Miss Packard and Miss Giles, she came to Atlanta, in the fall of 1888, to help wherever needed, although there was then no money available to pay her a salary.

* He married 1908, Cleope Teresa Magliano ( 1888 – 1926 ), a dancer with the Ballet Opera of Monte Carlo.

Likewise, Oscar Wilde wrote, " We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, the language " ( The Canterville Ghost, 1888 ).

From the end of 1888, the Amir spent eighteen months in his northern provinces bordering upon the Oxus, where he was engaged in pacifying the country that had been disturbed by revolts, and in punishing with a heavy hand all who were known or suspected to have taken any part in rebellion.

The text is filled with references to baseball as it was in 1888, which in many ways is not far removed from today's version.

The Empire tried to soften the problems with laws that would restrict slavery, but Brazil would inevitably recognize its end on May 13, 1888, with a law called Lei Áurea, sanctioned by imperial parliament and signed by princess Isabel.

In the summer of 1888, with classes in summer recess, Beaux worked in the fishing village of Concarneau with the American painters Alexander Harrison and Charles Lasar.

Landscape with Farm Building, 1888

A turn to utopian science fiction with Looking Backward, 2000-1887, published in January 1888, captured the public imagination and catapulted Bellamy to literary fame.

He moved to Vienna with his family in 1888, and studied at the Vienna Conservatory ( composition with Robert Fuchs, cello with Ferdinand Hellmesberger and theory ( the counterpoint class ) with Anton Bruckner ), graduating " with excellence " in 1896.

* London Music in 1888 – 89 as Heard by Corno di Bassetto ( later known as Bernard Shaw ) with Some Further Autobiographical Particulars, 1937.

The growing importance of the working classes was marked by Keir Hardie's success in the Mid Lanarkshire by-election, 1888, leading to the foundation of the Scottish Labour Party, which was absorbed into the Independent Labour Party in 1895, with Hardie as its first leader.

Schliemann made a third excavation at Troy in 1882 – 1883, an excavation of Tiryns with Wilhelm Dörpfeld in 1884, a fourth excavation at Troy, also with Dörpfeld ( who emphasized the importance of strata ), in 1888 – 1890.

In the Georgian era, patronage of such seaside places ( such as nearby Brighton ) gave it a new lease of life so that, when the time came with the reform of English local government in 1888, Hastings became a County Borough, responsible for all its local services, independent of the surrounding county, then Sussex ( East ); less than one hundred years later, in 1974, that status was abolished.

She married Dutch shipping and mining tycoon Anton Kröller in 1888 and used both surnames in accordance with Dutch tradition.

Keller with Anne Sullivan Macy | Anne Sullivan vacationing at Cape Cod in July 1888

In 1888, the new Governor General of Canada, Lord Stanley of Preston, whose sons and daughter had become hockey enthusiasts, attended the Montreal Winter Carnival tournament and was impressed with the hockey spectacle.

In 1888, Labadie organized the Michigan Federation of Labor, became its first president, and forged an alliance with Samuel Gompers.