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.

* Thomas Mayo Brewer ( 1814 – 1880 ), American naturalist

* 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.

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

William Thomas " W. T ." Cosgrave (; 6 June 1880 – 16 November 1965 ), was an Irish politician who succeeded Michael Collins as Chairman of the Irish Provisional Government from August to December 1922.

William Thomas Cosgrave, W. T., or Liam as he was generally known, was born at 174 James's Street, Dublin in 1880.

* Thomas Henry Wyatt ( 1807 – 1880 ), architect lived at 77 Great Russell Street.

In 1880, Thomas Carney immigrated to the United States from Ireland and settled in Texas, Maryland.

Green City traces its beginnings to April, 1880 when Sullivan County farmer Henry Pfeiffer commissioned surveyor Thomas J. Dockery to lay out the town in what had previously been a cornfield.

Diana Mitford was the daughter of David Bertram Ogilvy Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale ( 1878 – 1958, son of Algernon Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale ), and his wife, Sydney ( 1880 – 1963 ), daughter of Thomas Gibson Bowles, MP.

The town was established in 1880 and was named for Postmaster General, and future Texas Governor, Thomas Mitchell Campbell.

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

Thomas Bouch had originally been awarded the contract but he lost it after the Tay bridge Inquiry reported in June 1880.

Sir Thomas Bouch (; 25 February 1822 – 30 October 1880 ) was a British railway engineer in Victorian Britain.

The son of engineer Robert Stevenson, and brother of the lighthouse engineers Alan and Thomas Stevenson, between 1854 and 1880 he designed many lighthouses, all with his brother Thomas.

Between 1880 and the turn of the century, Thomas Humber and his partners were making bicycles and eventually motor-cycles and cars at a large factory at the junction of what is now Queens Road and Humber Road.

* The Boy's King Arthur ( 1880 ), based on Sir Thomas Malory's compilation of the legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table

Among the rhyming weavers were James Campbell ( 1758 – 1818 ), James Orr ( 1770 – 1816 ), Thomas Beggs ( 1749 – 1847 ), David Herbison ( 1800 – 1880 ), Hugh Porter ( 1780 – 1839 ) and Andrew McKenzie ( 1780 – 1839 ).

* Charles Lee ( British architect ) ( 1803 / 4 – 1880 ), in partnership with Thomas Talbot Bury, 1845 – 1849

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

In 1880, Sergeant James C. Cooney was the first person to find silver and gold ore in the mountains of Catron County.

It was first published in Copenhagen on 4 December 1879, in an edition of 8, 000 copies that sold out within a month ; a second edition of 3, 000 copies followed on 4 January 1880 and a third edition of 2, 500 was issued on 8 March.

The remainder of modern-day Canada was made up of Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory ( both of which were controlled by the Hudson's Bay Company and sold to Canada in 1870 ) and the Arctic Islands, which were under direct British control and became a part of Canada in 1880.

J. J. Head sold Headland to Hosey C. Powell in 1879, who sold to Dr. Wyatt S. Oates in 1880.

In early March, 1880, the Schieffelin's Tombstone Mining and Milling Company which owned the Tough Nut mine, among others, was sold to investors from Philadelphia.

Both Mr. Cone and Mr. Houghton sold their interests in the ranch to James Page in about 1880.

After Sharp's death in 1880, the heirs sold a large portion of the estate to Agnes Brown and her son Alex.

By 1880, the Farwell residence had been sold to Dr. H. J.

In June, E. L. Ingalls built the first blacksmith shop, which he sold to John E. Butler in the summer of 1880, at which time the business became " Bullard and Butler.

In October 1880, the St. Louis & San Francisco railroad sold a portion of what became Stella to Moses Eagle for $ 200.

Many of the settling families sold their land to Anglo settlers and speculators after the railroad reached Albuquerque in 1880.

William went bankrupt soon after completing the new mill and sold it to the Belle Vernon Saw and Planning Company in 1880.

In 1880 Mr. Guyler sold of land for $ 10. 00 to the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad for their right-of-way and the building of a town.

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.

His Man on a Balcony, Boulevard Haussmann ( Homme au balcon, boulevard Haussmann ) ( 1880 ), sold for more than US $ 14. 3 million in 2000.

* was an Ajax-class ironclad battleship launched in 1880 and sold in 1904.

The idea of a hot dog on a bun is ascribed to the wife of a German named Antonoine Feuchtwanger, who sold hot dogs on the streets of St. Louis, Missouri, United States, in 1880, because his customers kept taking the white gloves handed to them for eating without burning their hands.

* HMS Oberon was an iron paddle sloop launched in 1847, used as a gunnery target after 1870, sunk in 1874 during experiments with naval mines, raised in 1875 and sold in 1880.

* The third Charybdis was a screw corvette launched in 1859, loaned to Canada from 1880 to 1882, and sold 1884.

She was in service until at least 1880, and was possibly sold in 1908.

Between 1840 to 1880, Peru sold around 20 million tons of guano, at the rate of hundreds of thousands of tons per year, mostly to Great Britain.

* James Montgomery Beck, Class of 1880 and Trustee, United States Attorney for Pennsylvania, 1896 – 1900 ; Assistant Attorney General of the United States, 1900 – 1903 ; Solicitor General of the United States, 1921 – 1925 ; Member of United States House of Representatives, 1927 – 1934 ; and noted constitutional law scholar ; his most famous book, The Constitution of the United States ( 1924 ), sold over 50, 000 copies, including translations in German and French ; President of the Philadelphia Shakespeare Society from 1913 until his death in April 1936 ; elected a bencher of Gray ’ s Inn in 1914, being the first foreigner in 600 years to receive that distinction ; received decorations from France and Belgium

* HMS Niger was a composite paddle vessel launched in 1880, renamed Cockatrice in 1881, Moorhen in 1896, and sold in 1899.

* The fifth Challenger was a screw corvette launched in 1858, converted to a survey ship in 1872 in preparation for her famous voyage, hulked in 1880, and sold in 1921.