* 1887 – 1889: Nikola Tesla of Smiljan, Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, Austria – Hungary files for patents on distribution of alternating current ( AC ) and polyphase induction motors and generators.

The three-phase system was invented by Galileo Ferraris and Nikola Tesla in 1887 and 1888.

In 1887, Nikola Tesla began to investigate X-rays and produced the bremsstrahlung process.

On the 11th of March 1888, Ferraris published his research in a paper to the Royal Academy of Sciences in Turin ( two months later Nikola Tesla gained, application filed October 12, 1887.

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 ).

The post office was established in 1887, the plat was filed for record with the office of the Register of Deeds in Wilkin County on August 4, 1887, and the city was incorporated on November 30, 1901.

* UK Patent 15232 filed November 8, 1887

* Gramophone ( horizontal recording ), original filed May 1887, refiled September 1887, issued November 8, 1887

* Gramophone ( recorded on underside of flat, transparent disk ), filed November 7, 1887, issued July 1896

* Letters Patent No. 389, 294, filed June 9, 1887, granted September 11, 1887.

* Paper Cylinder for Graphophonic Records ( helically wound ), filed April 1887, issued November 1887

* Apparatus for Recording and Reproducing Speech and Other Sounds ( with treadle drive designed for dictation ), filed July 1887, issued December 1887

* Graphophone ( with duplicate transcription ), filed December 1887, issued April 1888

* Graphophone Tablet ( hard " ozocerite " ( carnauba wax ) cylinder coating ), filed November 1887, issued February 1890

James Anderson filed a homestead claim for 160 acres ( 647, 000 m² ) at present-day State Route 138 and 300th Street West in 1887.

On May 2, 1887, the year Reverend Goodwin retired from the church he had served for twenty years, he filed a patent for " a photographic pellicle and process of producing same ... especially in connection with roller cameras ", but the patent was not granted until 13 September 1898.

In 1887, the National League and American Association agreed to abide by some uniform rule changes and decreased the number of balls required for a walk to five.

* S. Ramanujan, ( 1887 – 1920 ), the famous Indian mathematician, known for his work on continued fractions, number theory, and his 1729 observation

However these things may be, he loves you as tenderly as ever ; nothing, to the end of time, will ever detach him from you, & he remembers those Eleventh St. matutinal intimes hours, those telephonic matinées, as the most romantic of his life ... His long friendship with American novelist Constance Fenimore Woolson, in whose house he lived for a number of weeks in Italy in 1887, and his shock and grief over her suicide in 1894, are discussed in detail in Leon Edel's biography and play a central role in a study by Lyndall Gordon.

By 1887, that number had grown to 13 blast furnaces, all operating within a three-mile ( 5 km ) radius of Columbia.

Benson was incorporated in 1887 and soon attracted a number of entrepreneurs wishing to take advantage of this new town along an important transportation route. http :// www. townofbenson. com / about / townhistory. cfm

At the direction of the Government of Sonora, a count was taken of the number of indigenous inhabitants still living in the Yaqui Pueblos of Cócorit, Tórin, and El Médano in late 1887.

In 1887, Walter Rye was appointed as the clerk and noticed a number of irreguarities in the way the company ran.

In 1887, the quotas placed on the number of Jews allowed into secondary and higher education were tightened down to 10 % within the Pale, 5 % outside the Pale, except Moscow and Saint Petersburg, held at 3 %.

The city is home to a large number of education facilities, including the Armidale Waldorf School ( 1985 ), New England Girls ' School ( 1895 ), The Armidale School ( 1894 ), and the Presbyterian Ladies ' College, Armidale ( PLC Armidale ) ( 1887 ), schools of the Australian independent education sector.

He later held a number of ministerial posts in the Cabinet of Sir John A. Macdonald and was the sixth Lieutenant Governor of Ontario from 1887 to 1892.

In 1887, the deaths of a number of prominent colonists — including Hughes's mother, Margaret, and geologist Charles Wilson — led to the departure of most of Rugby's original settlers.

" However, he made a number of significant alterations to the original Graphic version of She before its publication as a novel in 1887.

Estonia also produced a number of classical composers of high repute during the twentieth century, including Rudolf Tobias ( 1873 – 1918 ), Heino Eller ( 1887 – 1970 ), Artur Kapp ( 1878 – 1952 ), Artur Lemba ( 1885 – 1963 ), Mart Saar ( 1882 – 1963 ), Lepo Sumera ( 1950 – 2000 ), Eduard Tubin ( 1905 – 1982 ) and the living composers mentioned below.

1887 – 1961 ) were United States federal police officers, agents of the U. S. Prohibition Unit, who achieved the most successful number of arrests and convictions during the first years of the alcohol prohibition era ( 1920 – 1925 ).

The total number of Lebel rifles produced between 1887 and 1920 exceeds 2. 8 million units.

In 1887, they were permitted to continue to sit in the Lords for life ; the number of Lords of Appeal in Ordinary was also increased by further enactments.

The Mordialloc Railway Station precinct has a number of heritage buildings and elements including the cottage style historic Mordialloc Railway Station Buildings ( 1882 & 1887 ); and the last remaining example of Edwardian Railway Water Tower ( 1910 ) in Victoria.

From 1887 to 1893, four seems to be his number of cuts.

There were a number of mystery airship reports from the U. S. east coast in 1887.

A considerable number of Jews have held diplomatic posts, among the more prominent being Mordecai M. Noah, consul to Tunis, 1813 – 16 ; Edwin de Leon, consul-general to Egypt, 1854 ; August Belmont, secretary of legation at The Hague, 1853 – 55, and minister resident, 1855 – 58 ; Oscar S. Straus, minister to Turkey, 1887 – 89, 1897 – 1900 ; Solomon Hirsch, minister to Turkey, 1889 – 92 ; B. F. Peixotto, consul to Bucharest, 1870 – 76 ; Simon Wolf, consul-general to Egypt, 1881 ; Max Judd, consul-general to Vienna, 1893 – 97 ; and Lewis Einstein, third secretary of embassy at Paris, 1903, and London, 1905.

In addition to scholarships and fellowships, the number and conditions of which are settled by the trustees from year to year, the trust, from the revision of 1878 until 1887, maintained an annual Hibbert Lecture, the first series being delivered by Professor Max Muller in 1878 ; between 1902 and 1968 it issued The Hibbert Journal, a quarterly magazine.

He published a number of scientific papers and a contribution to the Fortnightly Review, entitled " Last Words with Gordon " ( 1887 ), and prepared a translation of Goetze's Operations of the German Engineers and Technical Troops during the Franco-German War of 1870 – 71 ( 1875 ).

The 41st Parliament consisted of ninety-five representatives, the highest number since the 10th Parliament ( elected in 1887 ).

Barron worked at a number of newspapers throughout his life, including the Boston Daily News and the Boston Evening Transcript, the latter from 1875 to 1887.

The word " mimeograph " was first used by Albert Blake Dick when he licensed Edison's patents in 1887.

Originally patented in the German Empire, Gassner also received patents from Austria – Hungary, Belgium, the French Third Republic, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ( all in 1886 ) and the United States ( in 1887 ).

By 1887 they were licensing their first patents abroad, and Maybach represented the company at the great Paris Exposition Universelle ( 1889 ).

Nikolay Benardos developed carbon arc welding, obtaining patents from 1887 showing a rudimentary electrode holder.

He went on to develop the overall theory of his system, devising theoretical and practical alternatives for all of the direct current appliances then in use, and patented his novel ideas in 1887, in thirty separate patents.

Captain James Buchanan Eads ( May 23, 1820 – March 8, 1887 ) was a world-renowned American civil engineer and inventor, holding more than fifty patents.