After leaving the University of Nottingham in 1882, Fleming took up the post of " Electrician " to the Edison Electrical Light Company, advising on lighting systems and the new Ferranti alternating current systems.

* 1882 – Thomas Edison's first commercial hydroelectric power plant ( later known as Appleton Edison Light Company ) begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States.

George Westinghouse's company bought Philip Diehl's competing induction lamp patent rights ( 1882 ) for $ 25, 000, forcing the holders of the Edison patent to charge a more reasonable rate for the use of the Edison patent rights and lowering the price of the electric lamp.

It was on September 4, 1882, that Edison switched on his Pearl Street generating station's electrical power distribution system, which provided 110 volts direct current ( DC ) to 59 customers in lower Manhattan.

Most notably, Thomas Edison, briefly a resident of Sunbury, established the Edison Illuminating Company of Shamokin in the fall of 1882.

The first public power station was the Edison Electric Light Station, built in London at 57, Holborn Viaduct, which started operation in January 1882.

In September 1882 in New York, the Pearl Street Station was established by Edison to provide electric lighting in the lower Manhattan Island area.

Coinciding with this, in early 1882, Edison opened the world ’ s first steam-powered electricity generating station at Holborn Viaduct in London, where he had entered into an agreement with the City Corporation for a period of three months to provide street lighting.

It was later on in the year in September 1882 that Edison opened the Pearl Street Power Station in New York City and again it was a DC supply.

In 1882 Goebel made an offer to sell his inventions to the Edison Electric Light Co. for a few thousand dollars, but Edison did not see enough merit in the invention to accept the offer.

Thomas Edison had been awarded a patent for the third rail almost a decade earlier, in 1882.

However supply was intermittent and in 1882 Thomas Edison and his company, The Edison Electric Light Company, developed the first steam-powered electric power station on Pearl Street in New York City.

The Western Edison Light Co. was founded in Chicago in 1882, three years after Edison developed a practical light bulb.

In 1882, this company was taken over by the Western Edison Light Company, which was chartered by several prominent Chicagoans to not only take over Isolated Lighting's role as Edison's agent in Chicago, but also to develop a central station electric system.

Western Edison installed the first incandescent lighting in a Chicago home, that of stockholder John W. Doane, in 1882, and it was first lit on November 10 of that year.

From its earliest involvement in the formation of Edison General Electric Company in 1882 and United States Steel Corporation in 1901, to its present work with leaders of the global economy in the 21st century, the firm has been closely involved in the affairs of some of America's, and now the world's, greatest industrial, commercial and financial enterprises.

When Johnson was Vice President of the Edison Electric Light Company, a predecessor of Con Edison, he created the first known electrically illuminated Christmas tree at his home in New York City in 1882.

The first power distribution system developed by Thomas Edison in 1882 in New York City used copper rods, wrapped in jute and placed in rigid pipes filled with a bituminous compound.

Earlier in the year, in January 1882, he had switched on the first steam-generating power station at Holborn Viaduct in London.

The lighting with 120 " 8 candle " bulbs was first switched on on March 15, 1882.

There was one sterile period: only one poem is dated between 1872 and 1882 and, except for the poems written on the trip to Italy in 1887, very few from 1882 to 1890.

The tune came to him while he was on a ferryboat trip from Coney Island back to his home in New York City, after a leisurely summer day in 1882, and he immediately wrote it down.

The series is named after a satirical obituary published in a British newspaper, The Sporting Times, in 1882 after a match at The Oval in which Australia beat England on an English ground for the first time.

Bligh promised that on the tour to Australia in 1882 – 83, which he was to captain, he would regain " the ashes ".

He published two important works on the Civil War: Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie ( 1876 ), and Chancellorsville and Gettysburg ( 1882 ), the latter being a volume of the series Campaigns of the Civil War.

* María Teresa, ( 12 November 1882 – 23 September 1912 ), married to Prince Ferdinand of Bavaria on 12 January 1906

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.

In 1882 the Imperial Russian Army converted all its line hussar and lancer regiments to dragoons, with an emphasis on mounted infantry training.

He began work on it around the year 1880, publishing an overview of the new system in 1882.

For example, the Chicago City Railway, also designed by Eppelsheimer, opened in Chicago in 1882 and went on to become the largest and most profitable cable car system.

Dylan Thomas was born in Swansea, in Wales, on 27 October 1914, to David John Thomas ( 1876 – 1952 ), a teacher, and Florence Hannah ( née Williams ) ( 1882 – 1958 ), a seamstress.

Beatty's other brothers were Charles Harold Longfield ( 1870 – 1917 ) who served with distinction in the South Africa wars before dying from complications after losing an arm in Flanders, Richard George ( 1882 – 1915 ) who died on active service in India, William Vandeleur Schruder ( 1873 – 1935 ) who became an army Major and Newmarket horse trainer, and one sister Kathleen Roma ( 1875 –).

Read before the Asiatic Society of Japan on 12 April 10 May, and 21 June 1882 ; reprinted, May, 1919.

Read before the Asiatic Society of Japan on April 12, May 10, and June 21, 1882 ; reprinted, May, 1919.

Read before the Asiatic Society of Japan on April 12, May 10, and June 21, 1882 ; reprinted, May, 1919.

Read before the Asiatic Society of Japan on April 12, May 10, and June 21, 1882 ; reprinted, May, 1919.

Read before the Asiatic Society of Japan on April 12, May 10, and June 21, 1882 ; reprinted, May, 1919.

Read before the Asiatic Society of Japan on April 12, May 10, and June 21, 1882 ; reprinted, May, 1919.

Read before the Asiatic Society of Japan on April 12, May 10, and June 21, 1882 ; reprinted, May, 1919.

Read before the Asiatic Society of Japan on April 12, May 10, and June 21, 1882 ; reprinted, May, 1919.

Read before the Asiatic Society of Japan on April 12, May 10, and June 21, 1882 ; reprinted, May, 1919.

Read before the Asiatic Society of Japan on April 12, May 10, and June 21, 1882 ; reprinted, May, 1919.

Read before the Asiatic Society of Japan on 12 April, 10 May, and 21 June 1882 ; reprinted May 1919.