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In 1886, the Suburban Rapid Transit Company commenced operations with a railway line over the Harlem River ( ( via a double-decked swing bridge located between the Third Avenue Bridge and Willis Avenue Bridge with the upper deck carrying the express tracks, the lower one the local tracks, and a pedestrian walkway )) from the Manhattan Railway's northern terminal at 129th Street to 133rd Street in the southern Bronx — known then as the " Annexed District.
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The first of the papers published (" On Very Rapid Electric Oscillations ") gives, generally in the actual order of time, the course of the investigation as far as it was carried out up to the end of the year 1886 and the beginning of 1887.
In 1886, Schlicht & Field, Rochester, NY, introduced the Rapid Roller Damp-Leaf Copier, a roller copier, which used pressure supplied by rollers to copy letters onto a roll of dampened paper.
1886 and Company
John T. Arundel and Company, a British firm using a competing claim to the island by the UK, made the island its headquarters for its guano-digging operations in the Pacific from 1886 to 1891.
The company was founded in 1886 as the American Arithmometer Company and after the 1986 merger with Sperry Univac was renamed as Unisys.
In 1886, the American Arithmometer Company was established in St. Louis, Missouri to produce and sell an adding machine invented by William Seward Burroughs ( grandfather of Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs ).
* 1804 – John Deere, American manufacturer ( Deere & Company ) ( d. 1886 )
John T. Arundel and Company, a British firm using laborers from the Cook Islands and Niue, occupied the island from 1886 to 1891.
In 1882 he began a connection with West Africa which lasted the rest of his life, by accepting the chairmanship of the National African Company, formed by Sir George Goldie, which in 1886 received a charter under the title of the Royal Niger Company and in 1899 was taken over by the British government, its territories being constituted the protectorate of Nigeria.
The Volta Graphophone Company of Alexandria, Virginia, was created on January 6, 1886 and incorporated on February 3, 1886.
He was a founder of the American Arithmometer Company ( 1886 ), which later became the Burroughs Adding Machine Company ( 1904 ), then the Burroughs Corporation ( 1953 ) and in 1986, merged with Sperry Corporation to form Unisys.
* 1880 – 1886: Charles F. Brush of Euclid, Ohio and Brush Electric Light Company installed carbon arc lights along Broadway, New York City.
Although the submarine was repaired and eventually carried out several trial runs in lower New York Harbor, by the end of 1886 the Nautilus Submarine Boat Company was no more, and the salvageable remnants of the Zalinski Boat were sold to reimburse the disappointed investors.
The Upjohn Company was a pharmaceutical manufacturing firm founded in 1886 in Kalamazoo, Michigan by Dr. William E. Upjohn, an 1875 graduate of the University of Michigan medical school.
Kilmer was born 6 December 1886 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, the fourth and youngest child, of Annie Ellen Kilburn ( 1849 – 1932 ), a minor writer and composer, and Dr. Frederick Barnett Kilmer ( 1851 – 1934 ), a physician and analytical chemist employed by the Johnson and Johnson Company and inventor of the company's baby powder.
The Mergenthaler Linotype Company is a corporation founded in the United States in 1886 to market the linecaster invented by Ottmar Mergenthaler.
* Linotype – Chronik eines Firmennamens ( Linotype – Chronologie of a Company Name ): e-book covering the history of Linotype, starting in 1886
Regarded as the year GEC was founded, 1886 saw Byng joined by a fellow immigrant, Hugo Hirst, and the company changed its name to The General Electric Apparatus Company ( G. Binswanger ).
The Lancaster Caramel Company of Lancaster, Pennsylvania was founded by Milton S. Hershey in 1886.
Returning to Lancaster in 1886, Hershey established the Lancaster Caramel Company, which quickly became an outstanding success.
In 1886, the Southern Kansas Railway Company, a Santa Fe subsidiary, began to build a rail line into the Panhandle of Texas.
The Brookside mine was opened in 1886 by the Coalburg Coal and Coke Company.
With this in mind, Monroe, Spence, Bicknell, Crank, and Falvey combined their land under the business name of the Monrovia Land and Water Company in 1886.
Lakeside began when the land that it is on, near Lindo Lake, was purchased by the El Cajon Valley Land Company in 1886.
The current town of Ramona was founded in 1886, when a land speculation syndicate, headed by Milton Santee, " organized the Santa Maria Land & Water Company and acquired for a townsite in the Santa Maria Valley and named it Ramona ".
1886 and commenced
Telegraph became operational in Inđija in 1850, while postal money transfers commenced in 1886.
A new Hospice building was commenced in 1886, and many more buildings followed.
A regular service to the Park serving tourists commenced in May 1886, and a short section of the line was duplicated in 1899 to service the multiple trains that travelled there on weekends.
Since its establishment in 1885 ( commenced operations in 1886 ) Landsbanki has been instrumental in the economic development of business and industry in Iceland.
The first transit system in Toronto commenced in 1849, connecting St. Lawrence Market to the Red Lion Inn ( shown above in 1886 ) in Yorkville.
In 1886 King Boreas the First was crowned and the first Winter Carnival commenced.
The construction work of this building was commenced in 1886 and completed in 1889.
1886 and operations
As early as 1886 he saw that logical operations could be carried out by electrical switching circuits ; the same idea as was used decades later to produce digital computers.
A. V. Hill, christened Archibald Vivian ( which names he detested ) CH OBE FRS ( 26 September 1886 – 3 June 1977 ) was an English physiologist, one of the founders of the diverse disciplines of biophysics and operations research.
Ybor City's factories rolled their first cigars in 1886, and many different cigar manufacturers moved their operations to town in ensuing years.
In 1886, the North Carolina Railroad Company transferred its operations to Spencer, NC.
Roslyn was platted in 1886 by Logan M. Bullet, vice president of the Northern Pacific Coal Company, and the first commercial coal mining operations were begun to support railway operations.
With the extension to Cardigan opening in 1886, operations were taen over by the Great Western Railway.
In 1872 a equatorial refracting scope was purchased for the observatory, in 1881 Tebbutt discovered another great comet, and in 1886 a new telescope of aperture and focal length was purchased, which enabled him to considerably extend his operations.
West, who incorporated the company and moved manufacturing operations to Taunton, Massachusetts in 1886.
After providing $ 56 million to back a management buyout of the European, Asian, and Latin American operations of bankrupt Arthur D. Little ( the US-based consulting firm founded in 1886 ), Altran itself acquired the Arthur D. Little brand and trademark.
" The Circuit ," as this route was called, officially opened in May 1886 providing double-track operation from downtown Boston through Brookline to Newton Highlands, then north into Riverside and four tracks on the mainline from Riverside back to downtown so that commuter and mainline operations did not conflict.
CP Ships began with steam freighters on the Great Lakes in 1883 and chartered ships in the Pacific in 1886, but CP Ships did not begin until April 28, 1891, when the first of its Empress ships started Trans-Pacific operations.
In 1886, the O & W acquired the operations of both the Utica, Clinton & Binghamton and the Rome & Clinton railroads from the Delaware & Hudson Canal Company.
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