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.

The company established the first investor-owned electric utility in 1882 on Pearl Street Station, New York City.

Lucien Gaulard and John Dixon Gibbs first exhibited a device with an open iron core called a " secondary generator " in London in 1882, then sold the idea to the Westinghouse company in the United States.

The company was founded in 1882 by three reporters: Charles Dow, Edward Jones, and Charles Bergstresser.

In 1882 Armstrong ’ s company merged with Mitchells to form Sir William Armstrong, Mitchell and Co. Ltd. and in 1884 a shipyard opened at Elswick to specialise in warship production.

Wyatt and Doc left the Arizona Territory for Colorado in April, 1882 and parted company after a minor disagreement.

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.

In 1878, the company was sold off to out-of-state owners and renamed the Oswego Iron Company, and in 1882, Portland financiers Simeon Gannett Reed and Henry Villard purchased the business and renamed it the Oregon Iron and Steel Company.

Her paternal cousin was Sir Geoffrey de Havilland ( 1882 – 1965 ), an aircraft designer, notably of the De Havilland Mosquito, and founder of the aircraft company which bore his name.

Captain in the Maryland company G during the Civil War, Colonel in the Egyptian army, Consul General of the US in Egypt during the Bombardment of Alexandria in 1882, and completed the discovery of the source of the Nile in the 1870s.

An irrigation company was formed in 1879 and an LDS Ward was organized in 1882.

Upon the death of Hiskias Pendin in 1882, Carl Fabergé took sole responsibility for running the company.

With his company, Barrett is credited with attracting the largest crowds of English theatregoers ever because of his success with melodrama, an instance being his production of The Silver King ( 1882 ) at the Princess's Theatre of London.

In 1882 the cricket and football clubs parted company ; the cricket club ceased to exist in 1925.

In company with the Earl Spencer, Lord-Lieutenant, he proceeded to Dublin, and took the oath as chief secretary at the Castle, Dublin, on 6 May 1882 ; but on the afternoon of the same day, while walking in the Phoenix Park in company with Thomas Henry Burke, the Permanent Under-Secretary, he was attacked from behind by several men from an extreme Irish nationalist group known as the Irish National Invincibles, who with knives murdered Mr. Burke and himself.

He was also one of the founders ( 1882 ) and Directors of Toronto General Trust, Canada's first trust company and an ancestor of TD Canada Trust.

In 1882, he started working in an insurance company, which allowed him to move back to Paris and re-enter the core of French socialist politics.

Dental floss was still unavailable to the consumer until the Codman and Shurtleft company started producing human-usable unwaxed silk floss in 1882.

In 1998, the New York Board of Trade became the parent company of both the New York Cotton Exchange and the Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange ( CSCE ) ( founded in 1882 ) and that now function as divisions of the NYBOT.

* 1882: A telephone company — an American Bell affiliate — is set up in Mexico City.

The company, in operation from 1881 to 1882, purchased several silver mines, mostly in Utah and California.

The first sign of serious trouble for the company came in March 1882 when the Starr-Grove mine shut down due to lack of profit and increasing debt.

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.

Ward had originally written the music, Materna, for the hymn O Mother dear, Jerusalem in 1882, though it was not first published until 1892.

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.

Argon was also encountered in 1882 through independent research of H. F. Newall and W. N.

During this period winter sports were slowly introduced: in 1882 the first figure skating championship was held in St. Moritz, and downhill skiing became a trendy sport with English visitors early in the 20th century, as the first ski-lift was installed in 1908 above Grindelwald.

The first Test match between England and Australia was played in 1877, though the Ashes legend started later, after the ninth Test, played in 1882.

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

The oldest, and the one to enjoy enduring fame, was the one presented to Bligh, later Lord Darnley, during the 1882 – 83 tour.

More recent researchers, in particular Ronald Willis and Joy Munns have studied the tour in detail and concluded that the presentation was made after a private cricket match played over Christmas 1882 when the English team were guests of Sir William Clarke, at his property " Rupertswood ", in Sunbury, Victoria.

:“ In 1882, she said, it was first spoken of when the Sporting Times, after the Australians had thoroughly beaten the English at the Oval, wrote an obituary in affectionate memory of English cricket “ whose demise was deeply lamented and the body would be cremated and taken to Australia ”.

A fourth match was played, against a " United Australian XI ", which was arguably stronger than the Australian sides that had competed in the previous three matches ; this game, however, is not generally considered part of the 1882 – 83 series.

The Society for Psychical Research was founded in 1882 with the express intention of investigating phenomena relating to Spiritualism and the afterlife.

In April 1882, Alcott's friend and benefactor Ralph Waldo Emerson was sick and bedridden.

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 1870 he was appointed a member of the commission for drawing up a maritime and commercial code, and the navigation law of 1882 is mainly his work.

There was at the top of the Arc from 1882 to 1886, a monumental sculpture by Alexandre Falguière, " Le triomphe de la Révolution " ( the Triumph of the Revolution ), a chariot drawn by horses preparing " to crush Anarchy and Despotism ", that remained only four years up there before falling in ruins.

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.

* John James Maximilian Oertel ( 1811 – 1882 ), born in Ansbach, was a Lutheran clergyman who later converted to Roman Catholicism, became a professor of German at Fordham University in the United States, and later edited and founded several newspapers in the United States, including one that would become the leading German-language newspaper in the county, Baltimore's Kirchenzeitung.

Thus in 1880 and 1882, Benedictine teaching monks were effectively exiled ; this was not completed until 1901.

The English case of R v. Coney in 1882 found that a bare-knuckle fight was an assault occasioning actual bodily harm, despite the consent of the participants.

In 1882 the Museum was involved in the establishment of the independent Egypt Exploration Fund ( now Society ) the first British body to carry out research in Egypt.