The town was home to the civil engineer and calculating prodigy George Parker Bidder ( 1806 – 1878 ), who is notable for his work on railways over much of the world, as well as the docks of the East End in the Port of London.

Gilbert had referred to the new technology in Pinafore in 1878, only two years after the device was invented and before London even had telephone service.

* The Theory of Sound vol. II ( London: Macmillan, 1878, 1896 ) ( alternative link: Bibliothèque Nationale de France ) OR ( Cambridge: University Press, reissued 2011, ISBN 978-1-108-03221-6 )

Sketches of the Wild Sports & Natural History of the Highlands London: John Murray 1878

* Walter Thornbury, Old and New London, Volume 3, 1878, pp. 394 – 462, British History Online

It opened at the Opera Comique in London, England, on 25 May 1878 and ran for 571 performances, which was the second-longest run of any musical theatre piece up to that time.

At least one D ' Oyly Carte company, and sometimes as many as three, played Pinafore under Carte's aegis every year between 1878 and 1888, including its first London revival in 1887.

In these papers, Bell accords the credit for the first demonstrations of the transmission of speech by light to a Mr A C Brown of London " in September or October 1878 ".

David Niven was born in London to William Edward Graham Niven ( 1878 – 1915 ) and Henrietta Julia Degacher.

He was made Honorary Member of the London Mathematical Society in 1878, Member of the French Academy of Sciences in 1892, Foreign Member of the Royal Society of London in 1895 and foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America in 1895.

For the next six years, he performed mainly on tour in the British provinces, playing character roles, although he made his London debut late in 1878 at the Olympic Theatre under the management of Henry Neville.

Carmen, after its lukewarm initial Paris run of 45 performances, became a worldwide popular success after performances in Vienna ( 1875 ) and London ( 1878 ).

Execution Dock was actually by Wapping Old Stairs and generally used for pirates .< ref name = brit >< cite > The Thames Tunnel, Ratcliff Highway and Wapping, Old and New London: Volume 2 ( 1878 ), pp. 128-37 Retrieved 29 March 2007 </ cite ></ ref >

In 1878 small yachts were available to hire from John Loynes, and with easy access to the area by rail from London, Harry Blake created an agency for yachting holidays in 1908.

As reported in Edward Walford's Old and New London ( 1878 ), " In past times it was planted with gibbets, on which the bleaching bones of men who had dared to ask for some extension of liberty, or who doubted the infallibility of kings, were left year after year to dangle in the wind.

An 1878 publication, Old and New London: Volume 4, mentions the idea that the area was named after a village called " Lomesbury " which formerly stood where Bloomsbury Square is now ,< ref >< cite >' Bloomsbury ', Old and New London: Volume 4 ( 1878 ), pp. 480 – 89 Date accessed: 8 March 2007 </ ref > though this piece of folk etymology is now discredited.

The origin of the name " Notting Hill " is uncertain though an early version appears in the Patent Rolls of 1356 as Knottynghull, while an 1878 text, Old and New London, reports that the name derives from a manor in Kensington called " Knotting-Bernes ,", " Knutting-Barnes ," or " Nutting-barns ", and goes on to quote from a court record during Henry VIII's reign that " the manor called Notingbarons, alias Kensington, in the parish of Paddington, was held of the Abbot of Westminster.

John Stow, the 16th century historian, described it as a " continual street, or a filthy strait passage, with alleys of small tenements or cottages, built, inhabited by sailors ' victuallers ".< ref name = brit >< cite >' The Thames Tunnel, Ratcliff Highway and Wapping ', Old and New London: Volume 2 ( 1878 ), pp. 128-37 accessed: 29 March 2007 </ cite ></ ref >

Its guano deposits were mined by American companies until October 1878.

The first of these, opening at the Boston Museum on 25 November 1878, made such a splash that the piece was quickly produced in major cities and on tour by dozens of companies throughout the country.

A Simcoe equipment and boiler maker company called West & Peachey Company invented an amphibious steamboat called an Alligator which was used by logging companies all over Eastern North America in 1878.

In 1878 Wisconsin set aside a vast swath of its northern forests as " The State Park " but, needing money, sold most of it to lumber companies within 20 years.

An example would be the Central Pacific Railroad Company, which challenged the constitutionality of mandatory sinking funds for companies in the case In Re Sinking Funds Cases in 1878.

Category: Railway companies disestablished in 1878

Category: Railway companies established in 1878

the initial suburban lines were all built by different private companies centred upon Flinders St, being amalgamated into the Melbourne and Hobson's Bay United Railway Company by 1865, with public ownership not coming until 1878.

During the later part of that period two companies started manufacturing clones of the Arithmometer, they were: Burkhardt from Germany which started in 1878 and Layton from the UK which started in 1883.

Category: Railway companies disestablished in 1878

In 1878, the French government took over ten small failing railway companies and established the Chemin de Fer de l ' État.

Founded in 1878 with the building of its first factory in the Belcourt neighborhood of Algiers, it is among the country's oldest companies.

The part in New Jersey was sold August 17, 1878 and reorganized with the same name, and the two companies merged in January 1879 ( January 25 in New Jersey and January 28 in New York ) to form a consolidated Jersey City and Albany Railway.

Category: Railway companies established in 1878

Category: Railway companies established in 1878

The company was established by state order of the Third Republic on 25 May 1878 to take over ten small failing railway companies operating in the area between the rivers Loire and Garonne.

Snow globes appeared at the Paris Universal Expo of 1878, and by 1879 at least five companies were producing snow globes and selling them throughout Europe.

Further construction work by both companies saw lines built to Lofthouse ( on the main line from Wakefield Westgate to Leeds ) via Stanley ( the Methley Joint line ) in 1865 ( 1 May 1869 for passenger traffic ), to Garforth via Ledston in 1878 ( giving passengers the choice of no fewer than three alternative routes to Leeds ) and a curve linking the Y & NM and L & Y routes in the town two years later.

In the fall of 1878, the `` Popular Telegraph Line '' was established between Manchester and Factory Point by the owners, Paul W. Orvis, Henry Gray, J. N. Hard, and Clark J. Wait.

The town became a regional transportation hub in 1839 with the arrival of the Michigan Central Railroad, and a north — south railway connecting Ann Arbor to Toledo and other markets to the south was established in 1878.

The town we now call Accrington covers two townships which were established in 1507 following disafforestation ; those of Old Accrington and New Accrington which were merged in 1878 with the incorporation of the borough council.

It was established in 1878, two years after the Diocese of Truro was created, by splitting the Archdeaconry of Cornwall.

In 1878 Surgeon-Major Peter Shepherd, together with Colonel Francis Duncan established the concept of teaching first aid skills to civilians.

The Exposition Universelle in 1878 firmly established his reputation as one of the leading engineers of the time.

* 1878 – League of Prizren is established, to oppose the decisions of the Congress of Berlin and the Treaty of San Stephano, as a consequence of which the Albanian lands in Balkans were being partitioned and given to the neighbor states of Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria and Greece.

* 1878 – The coat of arms of the Baku governorate is established.

England returned to Australia in 1878 – 79 for a one off test match, and when the Australians came to England in 1880, a firm pattern of tours was established.

In 1878, the University established its first law school in San Francisco with a US $ 100, 000 gift from Serranus Clinton Hastings ; it is now Hastings College of the Law.

Category: Association football clubs established in 1878

The idea of swallow hibernation became so well established that, even as late as in 1878, Elliott Coues could list as many as 182 contemporary publications dealing with the hibernation of swallows and little published evidence to contradict the theory.

By 1878 Protestantism was well established with preachers on each island.

Category: Populated places established in 1878

The office was initially established by the 1878 Stellvertretungsgesetz, which provided for the Chancellor appointing a deputy, officially known as Allgemeiner Stellvertreter des Reichskanzlers ( Deputy General to the Chancellor ).

In 1878, World Alliance of YMCAs offices were established in Geneva, Switzerland.

John Broadus Watson ( January 9, 1878 – September 25, 1958 ) was an American psychologist who established the psychological school of behaviorism.

* 1878 Camp Grierson ’ s Spring is established as a subpost of Fort Concho and named in honor of Col. Benjamin H. Grierson.

Richard E. McNalty established the Turkey Track Ranch in 1878.

It was created on August 13, 1878, from part of Luzerne County and is Pennsylvania's most recently established county.

* Portsmouth Harbor Lighthouse – first established in 1771, the current structure was built in 1878 and is open for monthly tours from May through September.

The private girls ' school established at the corner of Carleton and Brecknock Roads was closed in 1878 after many of its pupils drowned in the disaster.

Among the towns located in Andrew County are Amazonia, once on the Missouri River, now inland, laid out in 1857 near the site of Nodaway City, an early river port ; Fillmore, established in 1845 ; Whitesville, established in 1848 ; Rochester, established in 1848 ; Bolckow, established in 1868 ; Rosendale, established in 1869 ; Rea, established in 1877 ; Helena, established in 1878 ; and Cosby, established in 1882.