Radio waves were not detected first from a natural source, but were rather produced deliberately an artificially by the German scientist Heinrich Hertz in 1887, using electrical circuits calculated to produce oscillations in the radio frequency range, following recipies suggested by the equations of James Clerk Maxwell.

The Bürger Brauerei recruited the Bavarian brewer Josef Groll ( 1813 – 1887 ) who, using new techniques and paler malts, presented his first batch of modern pilsner on 5 October 1842.

Radio waves were not detected first from a natural source, but were rather produced deliberately an artificially by the German scientist Heinrich Hertz in 1887, using electrical circuits calculated to produce oscillations in the radio frequency range, following recipes suggested by the equations of James Clerk Maxwell.

* 1887: Charles Vernon Boys of Wing, Rutland, England introduces a method of using fused quartz fibers to measure " delicate forces ".

In the United States, containerization and other advances in shipping were impeded by the Interstate Commerce Commission ( ICC ), which was created in 1887 to keep railroads from using monopolist pricing and rate discrimination but fell victim to regulatory capture.

Stockton avoided the didactic moralizing common to children's stories of the time, instead using clever humor to poke at greed, violence, abuse of power and other human foibles, describing his fantastic characters ' adventures in a charming, matter-of-fact way in stories like " The Griffin and the Minor Canon " ( 1885 ) and " The Bee-Man of Orn " ( 1887 ), which was published in 1964 in an edition illustrated by Maurice Sendak.

The real impetus behind the modern cultural fascination with solving crime using entomological evidence can be traced back to the works Faune de Tombeaux ( Fauna of the Tomb, 1887 ) and Les Faunes des Cadavres ( Fauna of the Cadaver, 1894 ) by French veterinarian and entomologist Jean Pierre Mégnin.

With his studies finished, in 1887 he participated in an exposition in Toulouse using the pseudonym " Tréclau ", an anagram of the family name ' Lautrec '.

By 1887, Paola had its street lamps lighted with lamps using natural gas.

Vincent van Gogh, Self Portrait, 1887, using pointillist technique.

* It is interesting to note that Michelson and Morley ( 1887 ) and other early experimentalists using interferometric techniques in an attempt to measure the properties of the luminiferous aether, used monochromatic light only for initially setting up their equipment, always switching to white light for the actual measurements.

The first demonstration of the photoelectric effect was carried out in 1887 by Heinrich Hertz who demonstrated it using ultraviolet light.

With Sheffield Wednesday having left Bramall Lane in 1887, the management committee of the Bramall Lane complex decides to form a new football club at the ground, using Sheffield United Cricket Club as its basis.

Ramanujan ( 1887 – 1920 ) used properties of the Gamma function to give a simpler proof, from which the concept of Ramanujan primes would later arise, and Erdős ( 1913 – 1996 ) in 1932 published a simpler proof using the Chebyshev function ϑ, defined as:

In the winter of 1887 / 8 US inventor Charles F. Brush produced electricity using a wind powered generator which powered his home and laboratory until about 1900.

Wescott co-founded the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn with Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers and William Robert Woodman in 1887, using the motto V. H.

While James Clerk Maxwell was the first person to prove electromagnetic waves existed, in 1887 a German named Heinrich Hertz demonstrated these new waves by using spark gap equipment to transmit and receive radio or " Hertzian waves ", as they were first called.

In September 1887, the Norquay government was accused of using trust funds for Métis children as general revenue.

In late 1887 and early 1888, using his trolley system, Sprague installed the first successful large electric street railway system, the Richmond Union Passenger Railway in Richmond, Virginia.

Simms began racing in 1887 and was one of the most successful jockeys using the short-stirrup style ( which gave the rider a crouching posture ).

It was founded in 1887 with the warden's permission using funds from prisoners including the Younger brothers, members of the Jesse James Gang, and is believed to be the oldest continuously published prison newspaper in the United States.

A settlement began to grow in 1887, when the Renmark Irrigation Settlement was established by George and William Chaffey, who created a system of open drains using water from the Murray, to allow orchards to be planted in the area.

These devices served as the transmitters for most wireless telegraphy systems for the first three decades of radio ( 1887 – 1916 ) and the first demonstrations of practical radio were carried out using them.

In the early days of competitive sledding, the predominant style was luge-style racing lying on one's back, but the invention of the flexible runner sled ( Flexible flyer ) in 1887, known colloquially as ' the American ', led to Mr. Cornish using the head-first style in the 1887 Grand National.

However, the variance between methods results in differing recognition for the 1887 National League batting champion.

By March 26, 1887, Boys was reporting his results to the Physical Society of London

Chesilhurst was incorporated as a borough by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on November 26, 1887, from portions of Waterford Township and Winslow Township, based on the results of a referendum held on October 18, 1887.

Dunellen was formed as a borough by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on October 28, 1887, when it broke away from Piscataway Township, based on the results of a referendum held on March 23, 1886.

Jamesburg was formed as a borough by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 19, 1887, when it was created from portions of Monroe Township, based on the results of a referendum held on March 15, 1887.

Manasquan was formed as a borough by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on December 30, 1887, from portions of Wall Township, based on the results of a referendum held the previous day.

Island Heights was incorporated as a borough by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on May 6, 1887, from portions of Dover Township ( now Toms River Township ), based on the results of a referendum held on November 18, 1886.

Lavallette was incorporated as a borough by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on December 21, 1887, from portions of Dover Township ( now Toms River Township ), based on the results of a referendum held two days earlier.

Atlantic Highlands was incorporated as a borough by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 28, 1887, from portions of Middletown Township, based on the results of a referendum held that day.

In 1875, he had undertaken to compile a new Latin lexicon for the Clarendon Press, but the work proved more than he could accomplish, and in 1887 he published some of the results of twelve years ' labour in a volume entitled Contributions to Latin Lexicography, a genuine piece of original work.

His results after the 1886 match declined steeply: seventh at London and third at Nottingham in 1886 ; fifteenth at Frankfurt and fourth at London in 1887 ; lost a match in 1887 against Blackburne ( 1 win, 5 losses, and 8 draws ); and seventh at London in 1888.

He published in succession, Le Scorpion ( 1887 ), Chonchette ( 1888 ), Mademoiselle Jaufre ( 1889 ), Cousine Laura ( 1890 ), La Confession d ' un amant ( 1891 ), Lettres de femmes ( 1892 ), L ' Automne d ' une femme ( 1893 ), and in 1894 he made a great sensation by an exaggerated and revolting study of the results of Parisian education and Parisian society on young girls, Les Demi-vierges, which was dramatized and produced with great success at the Gymnase on 21 May 1895.

In 1887, he published the results of his thesis, followed by the first complete critical edition of the Liber Pontificalis.

Burn's greatest tournament results were equal first at London 1887 with Isidor Gunsberg ( ahead of Joseph Henry Blackburne and Johannes Zukertort ), first at Amsterdam 1889 ( ahead of a young Emanuel Lasker ), second at Breslau 1889 ( behind Siegbert Tarrasch ), and first at Cologne 1898 ( ahead of Rudolf Charousek, Mikhail Chigorin, Carl Schlechter, David Janowski, and Steinitz ).

The positive report of his drainage results in 1883 was followed by a dreadful report in 1887.

The following table shows the results of the 1887 general election:

The apparatus was more than accurate enough to detect the expected effects, but he obtained a null result when the first experiment was conducted in 1881, and again in 1887.

Depiction of Carnot's assassination appearing in Le Petit Journal | Le Petit Journal Illustré. When the Daniel Wilson scandals occasioned the downfall of Jules Grévy in December 1887, Carnot's reputation for integrity made him a candidate for the presidency, and he obtained the support of Georges Clemenceau and many others, so that he was elected by 616 votes out of 827.

In 1887 he obtained an appointment at the National Museum of Antiquities at Saint-Germain-en-Laye ; in 1893 he became assistant keeper, and in 1902 keeper of the national museums.

In 1887 Samuel Edwards working for Cecil Rhodes obtained a mining concession, and in 1895 the British South Africa Company attempted to acquire the area, but three Tswana chiefs visited London to protest and were successful in fending off the BSAC.

He was educated at the University of Tennessee where he obtained both his Bachelor ( 1882 ) and Masters of Arts ( 1887 ).

* 1887 Concession obtained for the construction of the railways.

Then in 1887 the Lehigh Valley Railroad obtained a lease on the Southern Central Railroad, which had a route from Waverly northward into the Finger Lakes region.

Meanwhile, in 1887, Alfred Nobel obtained an English patent for a smokeless gunpowder he called Ballistite.

The Imperial British East Africa Company obtained a concession in 1887 to administer this area, from Sultan Bargash of the Sultanate of Zanzibar.

In March, 1887, John M. Clark ( president of Western Edison ), Robert Todd Lincoln, and John B. Drake obtained a franchise from Chicago to distribute electricity in the downtown area, bounded by North Avenue, 39th Street, and Ashland Avenue.

She then obtained a position with Lady Louisa Cotes ( 1814 – 1887 ), wife of John Cotes of Woodcote, Sherriffhales ( 1799 – 1874 ).

In 1887, Carruthers obtained the most votes for the four-member Legislative Assembly seat of Canterbury, on a platform of local issues, free trade, social reform, land reform, industrial conciliation and arbitration, and an elective Legislative Council.