In the United States, in 1885, the chemist Russell S. Penniman invented " ammonium dynamite ", a form of explosive that used ammonium nitrate as a substitute for the more costly nitroglycerin.

The first self-powered machine gun was invented in 1885 by Sir Hiram Maxim.

Seat belts were invented by George Cayley in the early 19th century, though Edward J. Claghorn of New York, was granted the first patent (, on February 10, 1885 for a safety belt ).

* 1885 — Calender-Van Duesen invented the platinum resistance temperature device

The first automatic, self-powered machine gun was invented by an American born Briton, Sir Hiram Maxim in 1884 and first displayed in 1885.

Although small quantities can be popped in a stove-top kettle, or pot in a home kitchen, commercial sale of freshly popped popcorn employs specially designed popcorn machines, which were invented in Chicago, Illinois, by Charles Cretors in 1885.

In 1885 the ZBD model alternating-current transformer was invented by three Hungarian engineers: Ottó Bláthy, Miksa Déri and Károly Zipernowsky.

Jan Czochralski ( pronounced as ; 23 October 1885 – 22 April 1953 ) was a Polish chemist who invented the Czochralski process, which is used for growing single crystals and in the production of semiconductor wafers.

It was invented by physicist Aikitsu Tanakadate ( 田中館 愛橘 Tanakadate Aikitsu ) in 1885, and postdates the Hepburn system of romanization.

Others attribute the noun " stent " to Jan F. Esser, a Dutch plastic surgeon who in 1916 used the word to describe a dental impression compound invented in 1856 by the English dentist Charles Stent ( 1807 – 1885 ), whom Esser employed to craft a form for facial reconstruction.

It is widely reported that the lap steel guitar was invented by a man named Joseph Kekuku in 1885.

In 1885, Otto Mergenthaler invented the linotype machine, an automated type casting device which became the prominent type of equipment in the publishing industry.

Edward Davy ( 16 June 1806 – 26 January 1885 ) was an English physician, scientist, and inventor who played a prominent role in the development of telegraphy, and invented an electric relay.

Different movements or groups born in this period: in 1877 the Italian politician Matteo Renato Imbriani invented the new term " terre irredente " (" unredeemed lands "); in the same year the movement Associazione in pro dell ' Italia Irredenta (" Association for the Unredeemed Italy ") was founded ; in the 1885 was founded the Pro Patria movement (" For Fatherland ") and in 1891 the " Lega Nazionale Italiana " (" Italian National League ") was founded in Trento and Trieste ( in the Austrian Empire ).

In 1885 James Starley's nephew, John Kemp Starley, invented the Rover Safety Bicycle-a rear-wheel-drive, chain-driven bicycle with two similar-sized wheels, which is essentially the design still used on bicycles today.

In 1885, Hollingshead wrote to the Pall Mall Gazette, " Mr. Gilbert is somewhat severe on a style of burlesque which he did much to popularise in the old days before he invented what I may call burlesque in long clothes.

Parallel coordinates were invented by Maurice d ' Ocagne in 1885, and were independently re-discovered and popularised by Al Inselberg in 1959 and systematically developed as a coordinate system starting from 1977.

The Mae West was a common nickname for the first inflatable life preserver, which was invented in 1928 by Peter Markus ( 1885 – 1974 ) ( US Patent 1694714 ) with his subsequent improvements in 1930 and 1931.

The term " Hotchkiss gun " also refers to the Hotchkiss Revolving Cannon, a revolving barrel machine gun invented in 1872 by Benjamin B. Hotchkiss ( 1826 – 1885 ), founder of Hotchkiss et Cie.

Alfred Hans Rzeppa ( January 23, 1885 – January 1965 ) was an engineer working at Ford Motor Company who invented a version of constant-velocity joint in 1926.

First Gottfried Leibniz invented his Leibniz wheels after 1671 while trying to add an automatic multiplication and division feature to the pascaline, then in 1820, Thomas de Colmar drew his inspiration from Pascal and Leibniz when he designed his arithmometer, the first commercially successful mechanical calculator, and finally in 1885, Dorr E. Felt substituted the input wheels of the pascaline by columns of keys to invent his comptometer, the first calculator operated by keys and the first calculator to receive an all-electronic calculating engine in 1961.

The cream cracker was invented by Joseph Haughton at his home in Dublin, Ireland, and then manufactured by William Jacob in a small bakery around 1885.

The first mixer with electric motor is thought to be the one invented by American Rufus Eastman in 1885.

A prototype induction motor was demonstrated in Europe in 1885 by Galileo Ferraris.

Canada's Governor General, the Marquess of Landsdowne, demonstrated the Dominion government's support of the Galt enterprises, by opening the Galts ' railway in September 1885 in Lethbridge.

Ferraris demonstrated a working model of his motor in 1885 and Tesla built his working model in 1887 and demonstrated it at the American Institute of Electrical Engineers in a 1888 ( although Tesla claimed that he conceived the rotating magnetic field in 1882 ).

Julien Havet demonstrated in 1885, however, that it is a forgery of the Oratorian, Jérome Viguier, who also forged a letter purporting to be from Pope Symmachus to Avitus.

He first demonstrated a system of natural color photography at the 1885 Novelties Exposition of the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.

The existence of the Rydberg series was first demonstrated in 1885 when Johann Balmer discovered a simple empirical formula for the wavelengths of light associated with transitions in atomic hydrogen.

The nucleus is named for both Ludwig Edinger, from Frankfurt, who demonstrated it in the fetus in 1885, and for Karl Friedrich Otto Westphal, from Berlin, who demonstrated it in the adult in 1887.

First, in 1885 he published an article on conics in the plane where he demonstrated how group theory facilitated the study.

* 1885 – Japan's first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint.

There has not been a monarch known as Alphonso or Alfonso I of Spain, the first king of that name of the unified Spain being Alfonso XII of Spain ( 1874 – 1885 ).

* 1885 – Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen

The island first attracted the notice of archaeologists by the remarkable archaic Greek bronzes found in a cave on Mount Ida in 1885, as well as by epigraphic monuments such as the famous law of Gortyna ( also called Gortyn ).

Aberdare, during its boom years, was considered a centre of Welsh culture: it hosted the first National Eisteddfod in 1861, again in 1885, and in 1956 at Aberdare Park where the Gorsedd standing stones still exist.

Accrington was first represented nationally after the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 after the 1885 general election by Accrington ( UK Parliament constituency ).

The first professional black baseball club, the Cuban Giants, was organized in 1885.

The basic shape and configuration of a typical upright bicycle has changed little since the first chain-driven model was developed around 1885.

Starley's 1885 Rover, manufactured in Coventry, England, is usually described as the first recognizably modern bicycle.

* Karl Benz ( 1844 – 1929 ), German engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur who built the first patented automobile in 1885

In the first election after the Act was passed ( 1885 ), thirteen were elected, up from two in 1874.

The vital meeting was held at the Royal Hotel on 1 August 1885, W M C Hickson served as the chairman, and other notables in attendance included all the big sugar mill owners of that time, W G Farquhar, F L Nott, S McDougall, T Penny, S H Bravo and A H Young, all to become the first directors of the Company.

During its rebuilding period, Chicago constructed the world's first skyscraper in 1885, using steel-skeleton construction.

In 1885, the first steel-framed high-rise building, the Home Insurance Building, rose in the city as Chicago ushered in the skyscraper era, which would then be followed by many other cities around the world.

These first seven Carmichael numbers, from 561 to 8911, were all found by the Czech mathematician Václav Šimerka in 1885 ( thus preceding not just Carmichael but also Korselt, although Šimerka did not find anything like Korselt's criterion ).

Although the first graduate degree, a PhD in classics, was awarded in 1885, many of the current PhD programs trace their origins to the 1960s.

* 1885 – Ito Hirobumi, a samurai, became the first Prime Minister of Japan.

The first important frontier dispute was the Panjdeh crisis of 1885, precipitated by Russian encroachment into Central Asia.

In 1883 Darmstadt University of Technology and Cornell University introduced the world's first courses of study in electrical engineering, and in 1885 the University College London founded the first chair of electrical engineering in the United Kingdom.

* 1885 – The first government-approved Japanese immigrants arrived in Hawaii.

* 1885: Karl Benz invents Benz Patent Motorwagen worlds first automobile.

Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt ( June 2, 1885 – December 30, 1964 ) was a German neuropathologist, who first described the Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

In Europe, it is believed that in 1885 the Oxford University Ice Hockey Club was formed to play the first Ice Hockey Varsity Match against traditional rival Cambridge in St. Moritz, Switzerland, although this is undocumented.