In August 1898, Hay was named by President McKinley as Secretary of State and helped negotiate the Treaty of Paris of 1898, which ended the Spanish – American War.

In 1898 she converted to the Bahá ' í Faith, and helped play a key role in the spread of the religion in the United States.

While serving as a Congressman, Curtis originated and helped pass the Curtis Act of 1898, with provisions that included bringing the Five Civilized Tribes of Oklahoma under land allotment and restructuring provisions.

Batfish and War Memorial Park, whose major attraction is the submarine USS Batfish ; the Three Rivers Museum, dedicated to the history of the Three Rivers area and the railroads that helped create it ; the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame, honoring Oklahoma musicians since 1997 ; the Thomas-Foreman Historic Home, an 1898 farm house preserved with the furnishings of the Indian Territory Judge John R. Thomas and his daughter and son-in-law Grant and Carolyn Foreman, Oklahoma historians and authors ; and Ataloa Lodge, on the campus of Bacone College.

It helped publish a great number of Romanian language books and newspapers, and between 1898 and 1904 it published a Romanian Encyclopedia.

The development of the sailing dinghy was helped in the early 20th century by Uffa Fox ( 1898 – 1972 ), an English boat designer and sailing enthusiast.

The Dreyfus affair helped him to regain popularity, and in 1898 he returned to France and was elected deputy for the first division of Algiers, but was defeated as a candidate for reelection in 1902.

He was a member of the Western Australian delegation to the Federal Conventions of 1897 and 1898, and in May 1898 he helped found the Federal League.

In 1903, Orage, Jackson and the architect Arthur J. Penty helped to found the lively and successful Leeds Arts Club, with the intention of promoting the work of radical thinkers including G. B. Shaw whom Orage had met in 1898, Henrik Ibsen, and Nietzsche.

He also campaigned for the first Blackwall Tunnel, and as Chairman of the LCC Bridges Committee in 1898, he helped provide the Greenwich and Woolwich foot tunnels ( completed in 1902 and 1912 respectively ).

Peddie helped his new club gain promotion to the top flight in his first season in 1898 as well as netting a brace in an impressive 2-1 FA cup upset of top flight Preston North End the same season.

In 1898 he helped the team to win their sixth National Cross Country championship.

From 1898 to 1902, he helped organize and manage the Hawaiian Trust Company, and was managing director of the Hawaiian Fertilizer Company.

The team resigned from the AHAC in 1898 over the proposal to allow the Ottawa Capitals into the league, and helped form the Canadian Amateur Hockey League ( CAHL ) in which they played from 1899-1905.

In 1898 Mather helped a friend, Thomas Thorkildsen, in starting another borax company.

Bloomer ’ s goals helped Derby finish runners-up in the First Division in 1896 and helped them reach three FA Cup finals in 1898, 1899 and 1903.

He was on this ship when she helped to defeat the Spanish Fleet under Admiral Cervera on 3 July 1898 in the Battle of Santiago de Cuba.

Many believed that as part of this, aside from any nationalistic sentiment, Hearst may have helped to initiate the Spanish-American War of 1898 to increase sales.

House helped to make four men governor of Texas: James S. Hogg ( 1892 ), Charles A. Culberson ( 1894 ), Joseph D. Sayers ( 1898 ), and S. W. T. Lanham ( 1902 ).

From 1897 to 1898 Lurich toured Estonia and his successes helped popularize athletics in Estonia and dozens of athletic clubs were established.

* 1898 – Kurt Tank, German aeronautical engineer and test pilot ( d. 1983 )

In 1898, Russian engineer Yakov Narkevich-Iodko demonstrated electrography at the fifth exhibition of the Russian Technical Society.

* September 15 – Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft engineer ( b. 1898 )

* July 15 – John Fowler, British civil engineer ( d. 1898 )

Sir Henry Bessemer ( 19 January 1813 – 15 March 1898 ) was an English engineer, inventor, and businessman.

Their parents were Joseph Charles Duncan ( 1819 – 1898 ), a banker, mining engineer and connoisseur of the arts, and Mary Isadora Gray ( 1849 – 1922 ).

Harold Stephen Black ( April 14, 1898 – December 11, 1983 ) was an American electrical engineer, who revolutionized the field of applied electronics by inventing the negative feedback amplifier in 1927.

Norton's theorem is an extension of Thévenin's theorem and was introduced in 1926 separately by two people: Siemens & Halske researcher Hans Ferdinand Mayer ( 1895 – 1980 ) and Bell Labs engineer Edward Lawry Norton ( 1898 – 1983 ).

Kurt Waldemar Tank ( February 24, 1898 – June 5, 1983 ) was a German aeronautical engineer and test pilot who led the design department at Focke-Wulf from 1931 to 1945.

John Hopkinson, FRS, ( 27 July 1849 – 27 August 1898 ) was a British physicist, electrical engineer, Fellow of the Royal Society and President of the IEE ( now the IET ) twice in 1890 and 1896.

James Ford Garden ( February 19, 1847 – December 9, 1914 ) was a Canadian engineer and the seventh Mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, serving from 1898 to 1900.

* John Whitton ( 1820 – 1898 ), Australian rail engineer

This review found a suite, in Vox Urbis: de litteris et bonis artibus commentarius published twice monthly by the architect and engineer Aristide Leonori between 1898 and 1913.

The church houses a brass memorial plaque to the victims of the Whitwick Colliery Disaster ( 1898 ) and the gravestone of James Stephenson, who came here through the influence of his brother, George Stephenson, the engineer, to work as an official at the Snibston Colliery.

Sir Kazimierz Stanislaus Gzowski, KCMG ( March 5, 1813 – August 24, 1898 ), was an engineer who served as acting Lieutenant Governor of Ontario from 1896 to 1897.

Donald Mitchell Healey CBE ( 3 July 1898 – 13 January 1988 ) was a noted English rally driver, automobile engineer, and speed record holder.

* July 15-John Fowler ( died 1898 ), civil engineer.

* July 27-John Hopkinson ( died 1898 ), English electrical engineer.

Due to confusion by commuters alighting at the incorrect station expecting to transfer to a connecting train, the old Hornsby station was renamed Normanhurst on 17 November, 1898 after prominent local activist and engineer Norman Selfe, while the Hornsby Junction station assumed the current name of Hornsby.

* March 5-Casimir Gzowski, engineer ( d. 1898 )

In 1898, he joined the Gramophone Company in England as its first recording engineer.

* September 15 – Willy Messerschmitt ( b. 1898 ), German aircraft engineer.

Archibald Milne Hamilton ( 1898 – 1972 ) was a New Zealand-born civil engineer, notable for building the Hamilton Road through Kurdistan and designing the Callender-Hamilton bridge system.

* Sir Robert Rawlinson ( 1810 – 1898 ), English engineer and sanitarian

In 1898, the Technological Section of the Warsaw Society for Russian Commerce and Industry, whose director was engineer Kazimierz Obrębowicz, collected funds for the opening of Emperor Nicolas II University of Technology.