The film company spent $ 250, 000 building a replica gunboat named the San Pablo, based on the USS Villalobos -- a former Spanish Navy gunboat that was seized by the U. S. Navy in the Philippine Islands during the Spanish-American War ( 1898 – 99 ) -- but with a greatly reduced draft to allow sailing on the shallow Tam Sui and Keelung rivers.

The Kew Bridge Act of 1898 paved the way and the third bridge was commissioned jointly by the Middlesex and Surrey County Councils at a cost of £ 250, 000.

Hans Höppner observed about 200 of the 250 types of bees in Germany in Badener Mountains from 1898 until 1900.

Iveagh also donated £ 250, 000 to the Lister Institute in 1898, the first medical research charity in the United Kingdom ( to be modelled on the Pasteur Institute, studying infectious diseases ).

By the beginning of the 1898 – 99 season, Thomas had incurred expenditure of between £ 7, 500 and £ 9, 000 on acquiring and clearing the site, and erecting the new stands and had agreed an initial three year lease to the football club at a rental of £ 250 p. a.

* Elma MacGibbons reminiscences about her travels in the United States starting in 1898, which were mainly in Oregon and Washington.

In 1898 he presented a note to the Academy about binary numeration and its ability to be used to represent the sounds of languages.

In 1898, this tax brought in about 55 million yen out of a total of about 120 million yen, about 46 % of the government's total direct tax income.

" US Army victors on Kettle Hill about July 3, 1898 after the battle of " San Juan Hill ( s ).

The Yellow Kid's last appearance is most often noted as 23 January 1898 in a strip about hair tonic.

By 1898, Madagascar, Réunion, and the Comoros Islands produced 200 metric tons of vanilla beans, about 80 % of world production.

The battle peaked from 1895 to about 1898, and historical usage often refers specifically to this period.

* Moulin Rouge Dancers 1 & 2 ( 1898 )-USA-silent film about the Moulin Rouge

Front page cover of the newspaper L ’ Aurore for Thursday 13 January 1898, with the letter J ’ Accuse ...!, written by Émile Zola about the Dreyfus affair.

Nevertheless he was able to do a lot in tandem with Frowde, and expanded the publishing programmes and the reach of OUP until about 1898.

An article with drawings by Blumenschein about a ceremony at Taos Pueblo appeared in the July 10, 1898, issue of Harper's Weekly.

His other novel, Martyrs ' Shrine: The Story of the Reform Movement of 1898 in China ( 北京法源寺 ), is about the beginning and the failure of the Hundred Days ' Reform.

From the 16th century through 1898, there were about 16 military campaigns against the sultans five of these resulting in a short occupation, except for the last one.

In 1898, he presented a counterexample to Tait's claimed theorem about 1-factorability of 3-regular graphs, which is nowadays known as the " Petersen Graph ".

In 1898, Fairbanks was appointed a member of the United States and British Joint High Commission which met in Quebec City for the adjustment of Canadian questions, including the boundary dispute about Alaska.

After a four-month-long lecture tour that ended in April 1897, Gilman began to think more deeply about sexual relationships and economics in American life, eventually completing the first draft of Women and Economics ( 1898 ).

The track was constructed by the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railway about 1898.

The house was completed in about 1898 and stood in the vicinity of what is now Thornewood Court.

its the best about the same as in 1898.

Stanford had a post office from about 1898 to 1901, a sawmill on the creek that lay about a mile south of the town, and a school on a site of directly across from the post office.

Bollinger Sr. and his father-in-law, Laban Green, built a steam powered mill about 1898, approximately three blocks from the original mill site.

This settlement was founded about 1898 by Thomas Ellis, who had bought 40 acres from a Cherokee land owner named Jacob Dick.

The first truck manufactured at Kopřivnice in 1898 was a flatbed with 2 liquid-cooled side-by-side-mounted two-cylinder Benz engines each at 2. 7 L capacity with total power output of 8. 8 kW ( 12 hp ) placed after the rear axle and cargo capacity of 2. 5 ton.

Brown Boveri delivered seven 52 kW motorcoaches, with wooden bodies and side doors to each compartment, between 1898 and 1900, numbered 1 to 7.

They also delivered, between 1898 and 1913, five 4-wheeled 110 kW rack bankers which were used beyond Grafenort on the steep uphill section, to assist the motorcoaches up the hill.

In 1893, the Winnipeg Electric Street Railway Company was formed, and initially purchased power from Manitoba Electric and Gas, but by 1898, it had built its own 1000-horsepower ( 750 kW ) generating plant and purchased Manitoba Electric and Gas.

The beginnings of the plant go back to 1898, when the first two generators were installed with the capacity of 320 kW for the purpose of lighting the neighbouring coal mines and houses.

* NER Class E1, a 1898 class of small 0-6-0T steam locomotive

Rolls graduated from Cambridge University-where he won a Half Blue at cycling-in 1898, and began working on the steam yacht Santa Maria followed by a position at the London and North Western Railway in Crewe.

By 1898 steam traction engine trains with up to four wagons were employed in military manoeuvres in England.

*, was a steam yacht commissioned in 1898 and used as a training ship until sold in 1919

Easy access is granted by regular ferries, including one old steam ship from 1898.

About 1898, Thomas H. White purchased a Locomobile steam car and found the only thing reliable about its boiler was its unreliability.

Between 1898 and 1905 more than fifty pairs of Zwillinge twin tank steam locomotives were acquired by the Swakopmund-Windhuk Staatsbahn ( Swakopmund-Windhoek State Railway ) in Deutsch-Südwest-Afrika ( DSWA, now Namibia ).

Seen here leaving the shed at Strahan, Tasmania in September 2009One steam locomotive built in 1898 ( No 3730 ) is currently used for the West Coast Wilderness Railway between Strahan, Tasmania and Queenstown, Tasmania, Australia.

* Photograph of steam engine R 303 and drivers at Healesville, 1898

Camberwell to Ashburton was reopened 4 July 1898 operated by a steam locomotive and single carriage.

From 1898 on Tegel was the seat of the Borsig-Werke steam locomotive manufacturing company until it moved to Hennigsdorf in Brandenburg in 1931.

The mill was later run by R & H Strickland Ltd, although milling ceased in 1893 and the building was stripped of its machinery, including a large cast iron waterwheel and a steam engine, in 1898.

* Wilson Eddy, American steam locomotive manufacturer ( d. 1898 ).

Attempts to reassert imperial power during the mid-19th century, enabled by the development of the steam frigate ultimately failed, leading to the collapse of the remanents of Spain's empire in the Americas and Asia in 1898 at the hands of a rising power, the United States of America.

Between 1893 and 1898 one hundred and seventy-five 46 Tonner 0-6-4T tank steam locomotives were placed in service, built by the Maschinenfabrik Esslingen in Germany.

Despite this, the commissioners bought a steam dredger in 1898, which kept the channel in good order, and earned some revenue, as it was hired out to Beverley Corporation and Joseph Rank.