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1883 and standardized
On January 19, 1883, the first standardized incandescent electric lighting system employing overhead wires began service in Roselle, New Jersey.
In 1883 the standardized system of North American Time Zones was adopted by the general time convention of railway managers in Chicago.

1883 and system
In 1883 the New York and Brooklyn Bridge Railway was opened, which had a most curious feature: though it was a cable car system, it used steam locomotives to get the cars into and out of the terminals.
On 25 September 1883 a test of a cable car system was held by Liverpool United Tramways and Omnibus Company in Kirkdale, Liverpool.
* 1883 – The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey.
Two years later in 1883, the system of appointments to the United States Federal Bureaucracy was revamped by the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, partially based on the British meritocratic civil service that had been established years earlier.
In early systems an order including the grass family did not go by the name Poales but by a descriptive botanical name such as Graminales in the Engler system ( update of 1964 ) and in the Hutchinson system ( first edition, first volume, 1926 ), Glumiflorae in the Wettstein system ( last revised 1935 ) or Glumaceae in the Bentham & Hooker system ( third volume, 1883 ).
In 1883, the City Hotel in Sunbury, Pennsylvania was the first building to be lit with Edison's three-wire system.
* 1882 – 1883: John Hopkinson of Manchester, England patents the three-phase electric power system in 1882.
After some initial resistance, he successfully lobbied the government who passed the Melbourne Tramway & Omnibus Company Act 1883 on 10 October 1883, granting the company the right to operate a cable tram system in Melbourne.
Moderation of the spoils system at the federal level came with the passage of the Pendleton Act in 1883, which created a bipartisan Civil Service Commission to evaluate job candidates on a nonpartisan merit basis.
Chamberlain's scope for manoeuvre was restricted between 1880 and 1883 by the Cabinet's preoccupation with Ireland, Transvaal Colony and Egypt, but he was able to introduce the Grain Cargoes Bill, for the safer transportation of grain, an Electric Lighting Bill, enabling municipal corporations to establish electricity supplies, and a Seaman's Wages Bill, which ensured a fairer system of payment for seamen.
On January 19, 1883, the world's first electric lighting system employing overhead wires began service in Roselle, and was built by Thomas Edison to demonstrate that an entire community could be lit by electricity.
D. M. Bare's influence can be found in practically every aspect of town life: out of his general store in 1864, he developed a department store which became known as " the company store ;", now Roaring Spring Department Store, in 1867, he co-sponsored the construction of the first Methodist Church ; from 1868 to 1883, he served as one of the first postmasters, nominating the village's name change to Roaring Spring in 1868 ; he oversaw the creation of the town's first modern utilities, including the telephone system ( 1880 ), the water supply ( 1892 ), and electrical service ( 1892 ).
Thomas Edison installed the first successful three-wire electric lighting system in July 1883 at what was then known as the City Hotel.
In 1882 the town was incorporated with a mayor-council form of city government, and in 1883 a public school system replaced a number of private schools.
By the fall of 1883 an irrigation system was constructed on the Wheatland flats including a 2, 380 foot long tunnel to divert water for irrigation into Bluegrass Creek and the first two of the system's canals.
In 1883 Yamagata was appointed to the post of Lord Chancellor, the highest bureaucratic position in the government system before the Meiji Constitution of 1889.
In May 1883, while attending political meetings he heard " the call for revolution-and more specifically the destruction of the capitalist system ".
In 1883 a new system of sewers were laid and piped water supplied from wells at Husbands Bosworth.
The 1883 Civil Service Reform Act ( or Pendleton Act ), which placed most federal employees on the merit system and marked the end of the so-called " spoils system ", permitted the professionalization and rationalization of the federal administration.

1883 and North
Gardner was buried in the Sunset Memorial Park, Smithfield, North Carolina, next to her brothers and their parents, Jonah ( 1878 – 1938 ) and Mollie Gardner ( 1883 – 1943 ).
Between 1883 and 1889, Hill built his railroads across Minnesota, into Wisconsin, and across North Dakota to Montana.
North Carolinian James Jefferson Lafayott Glass came to the county in 1883 and signed on with the Sterling Brothers ’ Half Circle S spread.
The county organized on May 25, 1883, and became a county in the state of North Dakota on November 2, 1889.
Dunn County was created by the 1883 Dakota Territory legislature and named for John Piatt Dunn, who opened the first drugstore in North Dakota and was a civic and commercial leader during the early history of Bismarck.
At the time of the foundation of the Mouride brotherhood in 1883, the French were in control of Senegal, as well as most of West and North Africa.
Further competition arrived in 1883, when the Eastern and Midlands Railway opened a station near the terminal basin on its line from Melton Constable to North Walsham.
* 1883 One Room School, 206 North Meridian St, Pittsboro, IN
It was first called Lee when it was founded in 1881 but was renamed in 1883 for the son one of the early North Western railroad officials.
Not content with the sawmill, Mills devised a way for the same wheels to power the North Star Mill, a gristmill that Oren Hutchinson had built at the town of Thorp in 1883, to provide feed for livestock and flour for the local residents.
In 1883, in the area of North Platte, Nebraska, Cody founded " Buffalo Bill's Wild West ", a circus-like attraction that toured annually.
Wisbech once had three railway branch lines: the 1847 / 1848-1968 GER March to Watlington ( junction ), Norfolk ( on the Ely to King's Lynn main line ) via Wisbech East ( Victoria Road ); the 1866-1959 M & GN Peterborough to Sutton Bridge via Wisbech North ( on Harecroft Road ); and the 1883 / 1884-1966 GER Wisbech and Upwell Tramway.
Nicholson Trent Ironworks ( 1840s ), Northgate Railway Station ( 1851 ), North End Wesleyan Chapel ( 1868 ), St. Leonard's Anglican Church ( 1873 ), Baptist Chapel ( 1876 ), Primitive Methodist Chapel ( 1878 ), Newark Hospital ( 1881 ), Ossington Coffee Palace ( 1882 ), Gilstrap Free Library ( 1883 ), Market Hall ( 1884 ), Unitarian Chapel ( 1884 ), The Fire Station ( 1889 ), Waterworks ( 1898 ) and the School of Science and Art ( 1900 ).
Since 1883, the company has published more than 1, 800 games ; among their best known products are Monopoly, Cluedo ( licensed from the British publisher and known as Clue in North America ), Sorry !, Risk, Trivial Pursuit, Ouija, Aggravation, and Probe.
Construction of the Northern Tablelands railway service commenced in the 1870s and the Main North railway line reached Werris Creek and west Tamworth in 1878, Armidale in 1883 and Wallangarra, Queensland in 1888.
* History of the literature of the Scandinavian North By Frederik Winkel Horn, Rasmus B. Anderson, Published by S. C. Griggs and company, 1883 p. 231ff Retrieved 2011-05-02
Sinclair township, named for Donald Sinclair MPP for the North Riding of Bruce County from 1867 to 1883.
Established by the Dakota Territorial Assembly in 1883, six years before the establishment of the state of North Dakota, UND is the oldest and largest university in the state and enrolls over 14, 000 students.
UND was founded in 1883, six years before North Dakota became a state.
* 1883: North: Construction of the North Australia Railway from Palmerston ( Darwin ) starts
He became the superintendent of schools in North Carolina ( 1883 &# 45 ; 93 ) and subsequently he became professor of pedagogy and German at the North Carolina State Normal and Industrial College from 1893 to 1902, and in 1896 director of that institution's Practice and Observation School.
In 1883, 1885 and 1887 he made journeys to North Africa to study geology and terrestrial magnetism, and during this, period published some important charts of the distribution of pressure at a height of 4, 000 metres.

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