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From 1882 to 1889, Gibbs wrote five papers on physical optics, in which he investigated birefringence and other optical phenomena and defended Maxwell's electromagnetic theory of light against the mechanical theories of Kelvin and others.
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From 1850 onwards he became well known as a critic and essay-writer, and in 1860 he began working on his magnum opus, his History of Music, which was published at intervals from 1862 in five volumes, the last two ( 1878, 1882 ) being edited and completed by Otto Kade and Wilhelm Langhans.
From 1882 the village was served by Aberfoyle railway station, the terminus of the Strathendrick and Aberfoyle Railway which connected to Glasgow via Dumbarton or Kirkintilloch The station closed to passenger traffic in 1951, and the remaining freight services ceased in 1959.
From 1882 until his capture, Samori Ture, ruler of the Wassoulou Empire, fought the French colonial army, defeating them on several occasions, including a notable victory at Woyowayanko ( 2 April 1882 ), in the face of French heavy artillery.
From 1868 Sochotcki lectured at the St Petersburg university, first as the " privat-docent ", from 1882 as an ordinary professor, and from 1893 as a merited professor.
From Antonito a line was built over Cumbres Pass, along the Colorado-New Mexico border, reaching Durango, Colorado in August 1881 and continuing north to the rich mining areas around Silverton in July 1882.
From 1882 Pitt Rivers served as Britain's first Inspector of Ancient Monuments: a post created by anthropologist and parliamentarian John Lubbock who was married to Pitt Rivers ' daughter, Alice.
From 1882, an Amsterdam merchant cleared plantations for vanilla, coffee, tobacco and potatoes, however, his land was unsuitable and the crops succumbed to floods, drought, rot, insects and rodents.
From 1880 to 1882, he attended the artillery school at Fontainebleau to receive more specialized training as an artillery officer.
From 1833 to its demolition in the mid 1980s, the Salisbury Gas Light & Coke Company, who ran the city's gasworks were one of the major employers in the area. The company was formed in 1832 with a share capital of £ 8, 000, and its first chairman was The 3rd Earl of Radnor The company was incorporated by a private Act of Parliament in 1864, and the Gas Orders Confirmation Act 1882 empowered the company to raise capital of up to £ 40, 000.
From 1880 to 1882 the cause of abstinence was revived by the Gospel Temperance or Blue Ribbon movement, based in America.
From 1882 through 1884 disastrous floods and overflows of the river forced the people of Sumner to go by boat to Webb ( which was at the time called Hood ) for their supplies.
From 1882 to the end of 1885, he was in the maintenance of way department of the New York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad.
From 1818 – 1882, the city was the county seat of the former Michilimackinac County, which was later organized into Mackinac County with St. Ignace as the county seat.
From 1882 until 1917, St. Paul was the home of Frank Iams, the nation's largest importer of European draft horses.
From 1882 to April 1, 1947, Birsdall was located on the main line of the Pittsburg, Shawmut & Northern Railroad and predecessors.
Other major works composed in these years were the E minor String Quartet, From My Life, a series of Czech dances for piano, several choral pieces and three more operas: The Kiss, The Secret and The Devil's Wall, all of which received their first performances between 1876 and 1882.
From 1882 – 1918 most Irish MPs were members of the Irish Parliamentary Party ( IPP ) who strove in several Home Rule Bills to achieve self-government for Ireland within the United Kingdom through the constitutional movement for reform.
From then on he always resided at the Armagh observatory, engaged in researches connected with astronomy and physics, until his death in 1882.
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From 1880 to 1889, the French Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interocéanique under the direction of Ferdinand de Lesseps, who had successfully built the Suez Canal, attempted to construct a sea-level canal in the same general area as the present Panama Canal.
From 1889 to 1932, dwindling membership led to the closing of eleven Shaker villages and consolidation of members at the remaining sites.
From 1886 to 1889, at the same time that Zaharoff got the machine gun Maxim, he managed to appropriate Isaac Peral's submarine ; although these facts are less well known.
From 1889 to 1903, Cornell operated the New York State College of Forestry, until the Governor vetoed its annual appropriation.
From 1889 to 1930, a narrow gauge railroad called the Ilwaco Railway and Navigation Company ran up the whole peninsula.
From 1889 through the late 1920s several brickyards operated in Brickton, collectively producing as many as 20, 000, 000 bricks per year.
From 1889, Barrès ' activism overshadowed his literary activities, although he tried to maintain both.
From 1889 to 1892, while still a student, he played in the orchestra of the Folies Bergère ; he later said to George Gershwin that his rhythmic sense was formed during the experience of playing popular dance music there.
From 1889 lieutenancy counties in England and Wales were to correspond to groupings of administrative counties and county boroughs established by the Local Government Act 1888.
From 1875 to 1889 Yule was a member of the Council of India, being appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India on his retirement.
From 1889 to 1974 the administrative county, County of York, West Riding ( abbreviated: " County of York ( W. R .)") ( the area under the control of West Riding County Council ), was based closely on the historic boundaries.
From 1885 to 1889 he lived and worked in Tokyo in Japan as a law professor of the Law School of the Society for German Sciences.
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