A more reliable and controllable method of producing cathode rays was investigated by Hittorf and Goldstein, and rediscovered by Thomas Edison in 1880.

Thomas Edison independently rediscovered the principle on February 13, 1880.

* 1880 – Thomas Edison observes the Edison effect.

* 1880 – In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.

* 1880 – First electric lamp factory is opened by Thomas Edison.

In 1880, he was appointed chief engineer of the Edison Lamp Works.

Edison continued to improve this design and by November 4, 1879, filed for U. S. patent 223, 898 ( granted on January 27, 1880 ) for an electric lamp using " a carbon filament or strip coiled and connected to platina contact wires ".

Edison patented a system for electricity distribution in 1880, which was essential to capitalize on the invention of the electric lamp.

On December 17, 1880, Edison founded the Edison Illuminating Company.

Thomas Edison of Milan, Ohio established Edison Illuminating Company on December 17, 1880.

* 1880 Edison produced a 16-watt lightbulb that lasts 1500 hours.

In 1880 this assumption was shown to be false by either Edison or his colleague Francis Robbins Upton, who realized that maximum efficiency was not the same as maximum power transfer.

Science was founded by New York journalist John Michaels in 1880 with financial support from Thomas Edison and later from Alexander Graham Bell.

The effect was rediscovered by Thomas Edison on February 13, 1880, while trying to discover the reason for breakage of lamp filaments and uneven blackening ( darkest near one terminal of the filament ) of the bulbs in his incandescent lamps.

Thomas Edison put him to work on September 12, 1880 at his Menlo Park, New Jersey laboratory under John Kruesi.

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 ).

Years later, in 1880, correspondence was uncovered indicating that Garfield's influence had been sought in the matter and obtained.

In 1880 the Catholic Party obtained a parliamentary majority and 4 years later restored state support to Catholic schools.

Four female students obtained Bachelor of Arts degrees in 1880 and two obtained Bachelor of Science degrees in 1881, again the first in the country.

After Eakins obtained a camera in 1880, several paintings, such as Mending the Net ( 1881 ) and Arcadia ( 1883 ), are known to have been derived at least in part from his photographs.

The city was incorporated by the Oregon Legislative Assembly on October 23, 1880, and obtained its first high school in 1902.

The heirs of Daniel Weyland estate owned the property from 1880 to 1975, when the furnace property and 350 acres surrounding it were obtained by the Historical and Genealogical Society of Somerset County, who are attempting preservation and minor archaeological work in the area.

He devised a method of treating cotton to produce " parchmentised thread " and obtained British Patent 4933 on 27 November 1880.

In 1880, Osborn obtained a Sc. D.

In 1880 the local vicar, Reverend Benjamin Armstrong obtained permission to pull the building down.

He obtained his doctorate in 1880 with the thesis " L ' origine et la fonction du cœur accéléré.

In 1880 the family moved to Upper Norwood and here Frohawk concentrated on illustration and obtained his first commission for illustrating The Field.

Some reject the date of 1880 and claim the dates 270 and 1530 hold no historical significance and were only obtained by back dating from 1880.

Kreutz was born in Siegen in 1854, and obtained his PhD at the University of Bonn in 1880 on the orbit of comet C / 1861 J1.

After the abolition of tar barrelling around 1874 – 1880, permission was eventually obtained for torch processions.

Allentown Band, 1880, obtained with permission on 29 Apr 05 from R. Demkee, the Allentown, PA band.

From 1880, Thomas studied literature and classics at the University of Tennessee, where he obtained a B. A.

When Honduras obtained its independence in 1821, Trujillo lost its status of capital city permanently first to Comayagua, which lost it to Tegucigalpa in 1880.

The present down ( northbound ) single-line tunnel was commenced on 26 April 1880 and brought into use on 5 December that year, although Parliamentary approval for its construction had not been obtained: it was applied for in February 1881 and granted retrospectively on 18 July that year.

At the durbar on July 22, 1880, Abdur Rahman was officially recognized as Amir, granted assistance in arms and money, and promised, in case of unprovoked foreign aggression, such further aid as might be necessary to repel it, provided that he align his foreign policy with the British.

The Victorian docks were mostly further east, comprising the Royal Victoria ( 1855 ), Millwall ( 1868 ) and Royal Albert ( 1880 ).

Gauzen's diving suit and its further modifications were used by the Russian Navy until 1880.

He paid his half in March 1880, but the officials caused lengthy further delays.

The population of " Tampa Town " was below 800 in the official 1870 census count and had fallen further by 1880 ( see demographics, below ).

Expanded further in 1880 and 1938, the Fuggerei today comprises 67 houses with 147 apartments, a well, and an administrative building.

Carrollton's significance was further strengthened when the railroad was extended to Denton in 1880 by Jay Gould, who sold the line to the Missouri – Kansas – Texas Railroad ( the Katy ) in 1881.

To show Peru the futility of further resistance, on September 4, 1880 the Chilean government dispatched an expedition of 2, 200 men to northern Peru under the command of Captain Patricio Lynch to collect war taxes from wealthy landowners.

The government invoked two further postponements and in January 1880 moved all the prisoners to the South Island, incarcerating them in jails in Dunedin, Hokitika, Lyttelton and Ripapa Island in Canterbury.

Electroplated wares became very successful in the Victorian market and by 1880 the company employed 1, 000 people at the Newhall Street site and had a further six factories.

He displayed no interest in benefitting from a further amnesty in 1880.

Despite further restoration in the first part of the 19th century by 1880 the church was in a deplorable condition and the newly appointed vicar, the Rev.

Following the opening of the Royal Albert Dock in 1880, giving the Royals access to Gallions Reach, below London Bridge, the rival East & West India Docks Company responded with the construction of Tilbury Docks even further down river.

The Government undertook no further surveys until 1880, when a new route was approved.

In 1880, the Commission concluded that the solution of yellow fever causality must await further progress in the new science of bacteriology.

In 1880, he was called by his church to move with his family to St. Johns, Apache County, Arizona, in order to become the local bishop and facilitate further Mormon migration into that community.

In 1873-74 he accompanied the Friedrich Rohlf's expedition to the Libyan desert, the primary results of which were published in Über den geologischen Bau der libyschen Wuste ( 1880 ), and further details in the Palaeontographica ( 1883 ).

Due to further support from American emigrant José Luís da Silveira, the church was remodelled in 1880.

He returned to Turkestan after the war, and in 1880 and 1881 further distinguished himself by retrieving the disasters inflicted by the Tekke Turkomans: following Siege of Geoktepe he captured the city, and, after much slaughter, reduced the Akhal-Tekke country to submission.

Although Kaufmann was unable to induce his government to support all his ambitious schemes of further conquest, he was still in office when General Mikhail Skobelev was despatched from Tiflis in 1880 and 1881 against the Turkomans of the Akhal-Teke Oasis, but died suddenly at Tashkent in May 1882, shortly before the annexation of Merv.

In 1880 he became a Titular Archbishop of Sardes and Apostolic Delegate to the Ottoman Empire and the Patriarch of Constantinople, and after further postings was named a cardinal in pectore in December 1889 and publicly announced in the consistory of 1890, becoming Cardinal-Priest of San Silvestro in Capite.

The period can further be divided into Early Modern Swedish ( 1526 – 1750 ) and Late Modern Swedish ( 1750 – 1880 ).

The River Witham Outfall Improvement Act 1880 authorised further improvements to the mouth of the Witham, to which the Black Sluice Commissioners contributed £ 65, 000.

In September 1880 a Royal Commission was appointed to investigate further.