In 1887, Arthur Conan Doyle created Sherlock Holmes, the most famous of all fictional detectives.

* 1887 – Arthur Ernest Percival, British Army officer ( d. 1966 )

* 1966 – General Arthur Ernest Percival, British Army Officer ( b. 1887 )

Earnest Hooton ( 1887 – 1954 ), a Classics PhD from the University of Wisconsin, entered anthropology as an Oxford Rhodes Scholar under R. R. Marett and the anatomist Arthur Keith.

* Waite, Arthur Edward ( 1887 ) The Real History of the Rosicrucians G. Redway, London OCLC 7080058 ; reprinted in 1960 by Society of Metaphysicians, Hastings, England, ISBN 1-85228-705-5 ; reprinted in 2000 by Garber Communications, Blauvelt, New York, ISBN 0-89345-018-9 ; see full text from The Internet Sacred Text Archive

These children were Raymond ( 1878 – 1916 ), Herbert ( 1881 – 1947 ), Arthur ( 1883 – 1939 ), Violet ( 1887 – 1969 ), and Cyril ( 1890 – 1954 ).

Alexander F. Lobdell, the store's proprietor, was appointed postmaster by President Abraham Lincoln and was reappointed by Presidents Grant, Hayes, Garfield and Arthur, continuing as Brewster's postmaster until 1887.

The first kite aerial photographs were taken by British meteorologist Douglas Archibald in 1887 and Arthur Batut in Labruguière ( France ) in 1888.

S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz cited other literary inspirations: Guy de Maupassant's " The Horla " ( 1887 ), which Lovecraft described in " Supernatural Horror in Literature " as concerning " an invisible being who ... sways the minds of others, and seems to be the vanguard of a horde of extraterrestrial organisms arrived on earth to subjugate and overwhelm mankind "; and Arthur Machen's " The Novel of the Black Seal " ( 1895 ), which uses the same method of piecing together of disassociated knowledge ( including a random newspaper clipping ) to reveal the survival of a horrific ancient being.

* John Arthur Phillips ( 1822 – 1887 ), British geologist, metallurgist and mining engineer

* Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was actually knighted on October 24, 1902 by King Edward VII due to his work The War in South Africa: Its causes and conduct, not by Queen Victoria in 1887, as seen in the film.

See also Arthur Chuquet, De Ewaldi Kleistii vita et scriptis ( Paris, 1887 ), and Heinrich Pröhle, Friedrich der Grosse und die deutsche Literatur ( 1872 ).

Massinger's independent works were collected by Thomas Coxeter ( 4 vols., 1759, revised edition with introduction by Thomas Davies, 1779 ), by J. Monck Mason ( 4 vols., 1779 ), by William Gifford ( 4 vols., 1805, 1813 ), by Hartley Coleridge ( 1840 ), by Lt. Col. Cunningham ( 1867 ), and selections by Arthur Symons in the Mermaid Series ( 1887 – 9 ).

A device similar to the Rogowski coil was described by Arthur Prince Chattock of Bristol University in 1887.

Emilia Tennyson ( 1811 – 1887 ), known simply as Emily within her family, was a younger sister of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and the fiancée of Arthur Henry Hallam, for whom Tennyson's great poem, In Memoriam A. H. H., was written.

Arthur Edward Stilwell began construction on the first line of what would become the Kansas City Southern Railway in 1887, in suburban Kansas City, Missouri.

From 1887 to 1889 the Minster was mostly rebuilt in the perpendicular style by Sir Arthur Blomfield.

In 1887, Scotsman Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ( 1859 – 1930 ) gave fresh impetus to the emerging form of the detective story by creating Sherlock Holmes, resident at 221B Baker Street, London — probably the most famous of fictional detectives and the first one to have clients, to be hired to solve a case.

Image: Chestnut_Hill_Water_Works_high-service_pumping_station. jpg | The High Service Building at Chestnut Hill Water Works, Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts ; Arthur H. Vinal, architect, 1887

Kansas City Southern was founded in 1887 by Arthur Edward Stilwell, with the goal of connecting the U. S. heartland to the Gulf of Mexico.

* Arthur Herbert Tennyson Somers-Cocks, 6th Baron Somers ( 1887 – 1944 )

Lord Salisbury married Lady Cicely Gore, second daughter of Arthur Gore, 5th Earl of Arran, in 1887.

( Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, 1887 )

Second Lieutenant Basil Arthur Horsfall, VC ( 4 October 1887 – 27 March 1918 ) was a British-Ceylonese recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

They first appeared in Conan Doyle's original Sherlock Holmes story, A Study In Scarlet ( written 1886, published 1887 ).

* Clyde Doyle ( 1887 – 1963 ), U. S. Representative from California

An eccentric, Satie was introduced as a " gymnopedist " in 1887, shortly before writing his most famous compositions, the.

However, the general concept of functional had previously been introduced in 1887 by the Italian mathematician and physicist Vito Volterra.

Between 1880 and 1887, Heaviside developed the operational calculus ( involving the D notation for the differential operator, which he is credited with creating ), a method of solving differential equations by transforming them into ordinary algebraic equations which caused a great deal of controversy when first introduced, owing to the lack of rigour in his derivation of it.

In 1887, Heaviside introduced the concept of loading coils.

The next year Benz created the Motorwagen Model 2 which had several modifications, and in 1887, the definitive Model 3 with wooden wheels was introduced, showing at the Paris Expo the same year.

* 1887 – Celluloid film base introduced.

It was introduced into the Parliament of the United Kingdom by William Ewart Gladstone to overcome the obstruction of the Irish nationalist party and was made permanent in 1887.

The most successful adaptation was David Garrick's Catharine and Petruchio, which was introduced in 1756 and dominated the stage for almost two centuries, with Shakespeare's play not returning until 1844 in England and 1887 in the United States, although Garrick's version was still being performed as late as 1879, when Herbert Beerbohm Tree staged it.

Telephone service was introduced in 1884, and the Chateaugay Railroad reached Saranac Lake from Plattsburgh in 1887.

In the 1887 Grand National competition in St. Moritz, a Mr. Cornish introduced the now traditional head-first position, a trend that was in full force by the 1890 Grand National.

She in turn introduced to the firm Mary Cholmondeley in about 1887.

By 1887, the George Street store had been rebuilt and a mail order facility introduced.

Lord George Hamilton recorded that when the government introduced the Criminal Law Amendment ( Ireland ) Bill in March 1887, which increased the authorities ' coercive powers, the Liberal Party opposed it.

It was also in 1913, in January, that the Post Office introduced domestic parcel post service ( a belated development, given that international parcel post service between the United States and other countries began in 1887 ).

His 1887 design for the home of contractor Lewis Lukes at 37 Madison Avenue introduced a design that would be imitated and modified for the next two decades.

To eliminate the inherent vagueness of this notion Jordan in 1887 introduced the following rigorous definition, which has since been adopted as the precise description of the notion of a continuous curve:

Even worse, the universal military conscription that had been introduced in most of the Russian Empire, was now ( in 1887 ) imposed in its Transcaucasian provinces as well.

Category: Railway locomotives introduced in 1887

In this capacity he had to carry out the coercive measures introduced by Bismarck in 1887 and 1888, though he largely disapproved of them ; his conciliatory disposition, however, did much to reconcile the Alsace-Lorrainers to German rule.

The first machine with columns of keys, the comptometer, was introduced in 1887 while 10 key calculators and electric motors appeared in 1902.

Such labels have also been used for boycotts, as when the merchandise mark Made in Germany was introduced in 1887.

In 1882 he introduced his concept of an impulse steam turbine and in 1887 built a small steam turbine to demonstrate that such devices could be constructed on that scale.

Phenacetin was introduced in 1887, and was used principally as an analgesic ; it was one of the first synthetic fever reducers to go on the market.

In 1887 Tivadar Puskás introduced the multiplex switchboard, which was a revolutionary step in the development of telephone exchanges.