' Early Days of the Canadian Institute ' by Sir Sandford Fleming was published in 1899.

In 1899, Fleming was given the title of Curator of Astronomical Photographs.

The prototype star RR Lyrae was discovered prior to 1899 by Williamina Fleming, and reported by Pickering in 1900 as " indistinguishable from cluster-type variables ".

Their children were Francis Fleming Lovejoy ( 1894 – 1916 ); Kenneth Frick Lovejoy ( 1896 – 1947 ); and Marjory ( 1899 – 1980 ).

In 1899 Schweitzer became a deacon at the church Saint-Nicolas of Strasbourg.

The term became popular again in Australia first, when George Giffen, in his memoirs ( With Bat and Ball, 1899 ), used the term as if it were well known.

His successor Joe Darling won the next three series in 1899, 1901 – 02 and the classic 1902 series, which became one of the most famous in the history of Test cricket.

In 1899, Mile-a-Minute Murphy became the first man to ride his bicycle a mile in under a minute, which he did by drafting a locomotive at New York's Long Island.

* 1899: Diesel licensed his engine to builders Krupp and Sulzer, who quickly became major manufacturers.

From 1899 to 1906 the labor movement became conclusively independent, shedding the patriarchal thinking of the Fennoman estates.

Through nudism, Gardner made a number of notable friends, including James Laver ( 1899 – 1975 ), who became the Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and Cottie Arthur Burland ( 1905 – 1983 ), who was the Curator of the Department of Ethnography at the British Museum.

In Siberia, Trotsky became aware of the differences within the party, which had been decimated by arrests in 1898 and 1899.

The Riverside Football Club, founded in 1899, played some matches at the Arms Park until 1910, when they moved to Ninian Park, and later became Cardiff City Football Club.

Opel has been building automobiles since 1899, and became an Aktiengesellschaft in 1929.

The ragtime composer Scott Joplin became famous through the publication in 1899 of the " Maple Leaf Rag " and a string of ragtime hits that followed, although he was later forgotten by all but a small, dedicated community of ragtime aficionados until the major ragtime revival in the early 1970s.

In 1899, Scott Joplin's " Maple Leaf Rag " was published, which became a great hit and demonstrated more depth and sophistication than earlier ragtime.

The Tripartite Convention of 1899 partitioned the Samoan Islands into two parts: the eastern island group became a territory of the United States ( the Tutuila Islands in 1900 and officially Manu ' a in 1904 ) and is today known as American Samoa ; the western islands, by far the greater landmass, became known as German Samoa after Britain vacated all claims to Samoa and accepted termination of German rights in Tonga and certain areas in the Solomon Islands and West Africa.

Sudan officially became the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan in 1899.

In Sobhuza II's case, his grandmother theNdlovukati Labotsibeni Mdluli was regent from his choice as infant heir in 1899 following the death of his father Bhunu until his accession to full authority in 1922, when his mother Lomawa Ndwandwe became the ndlovukati.

Kruger won another presidential election in 1898, but the following year British forces were gathering on the borders of the Boer Republics of Transvaal and the Orange Free State and fearing Britain's imminent annexation, the Boers launched a preemptive strike against the nearby British colonies in 1899, a strike which became the Second Boer War.

In 1899, Diaghilev became special assistant to Prince Sergei Mikhaylovich Volkonsky, who had recently taken over directorship of all Imperial theaters.

Reed became city solicitor of Portland 1874 – 1877, before being elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth and to the eleven succeeding Congresses, serving from 1877, to September 4, 1899, when he resigned.

" While Utah suffered from deadlocks in 1897 and 1899, they became " a good teaching experience ," and Utah never again failed to elect senators.

Dzerzhinsky subsequently became one of the founders of Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania ( SDKPiL ) in 1899.

Paul Lincke pioneered the Berlin operetta in 1899 with Frau Luna, which includes " Berliner Luft " (" Berlin Air "), which became the unofficial anthem of Berlin.

At Trinity in 1899 Strachey, Woolf, Sydney-Turner and Bell became good friends with Thoby Stephen, who introduced them to his sisters Vanessa and Virginia in London, and in this way the Bloomsbury Group came into being.

It was not until 1899 that Burundi became a part of German East Africa.

Among his other publications may be mentioned Essays, Theological and Literary ( 1871 ; revised 1888 ), and Criticisms on Contemporary Thought and Thinkers ( 1894 ); and his opinions may be studied compendiously in the selections from his Spectator articles published in 1899 under the title of Aspects of Religious and Scientific Thought.

* The Life of James Dwight Dana, Scientific Explorer, Mineralogist, Geologist, Zoologist, Professor in Yale University, New York, 1899

Adams graduated from the Armour Scientific Academy in 1899, attended the University of Michigan for one year and worked in insurance for three years.

Sir ( William ) Ian Clunies Ross, CMG ( 1899 – 1959 ) is described as the ' architect ' of Australia's scientific boom, for his stewardship of Australia's scientific organisation the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation-CSIRO.

II., 1884 ), Der Fortschritt in Natur und Geschichte im Lichte der Darwinschen Theorie ( Progress in Nature and History in the Light of the Darwinian Theory, 1884 ), Tatsachen und Theorien aus dem naturwissenschaftlichen Leben der Gegenwart ( Facts and Theories from the Scientific Life of Present, 1887 ), Fremdes und Eigenes aus dem geistligen Leben der Gegenwart ( Extraneous and Self from the Spiritual Life of Present, 1890 ), Darwinismus und Socialismus ( 1894 ), Im Dienste der Wahrheit ( In the Service of Truth, 1899 ).

In 1899, Guglielmo Marconi opened the world's first " wireless " factory under the name The Marconi Wireless Telegraph & Signal Company in Hall Street employing around 50 people.

On 15 November 1899, St. Paul, enroute from New York to England with Guglielmo Marconi on board supervising the ship's new wireless telegraph equipment, became the first liner to report her imminent arrival by radio.

The hotel was both the home and centre of wireless experiments by Guglielmo Marconi in the late 1890s, and was the third place in the world to boast a permanent wireless station ( 1899 ).

The more substantial building near the site, originally the Poldhu Hotel, built from 1899 to house the Marconi workers, is currently a care home.

This was the first American lighthouse to test a Fresnel lens and was also the site of a demonstration by Marconi of the wireless telegraph in 1899.

In 1899, Vaccaro Brothers and Company ( later known as Standard Fruit, a New Orleans-based fruit corporation, which came to Honduras in 1899 to purchase coconuts, oranges and bananas on Roatan Island.

Hen wlad fy nhadau was also one of the first Welsh-language songs recorded when Madge Breese sang it on 11 March 1899, for the Gramophone Company, as part of the first recording in the Welsh language.

In 1882 he began a connection with West Africa which lasted the rest of his life, by accepting the chairmanship of the National African Company, formed by Sir George Goldie, which in 1886 received a charter under the title of the Royal Niger Company and in 1899 was taken over by the British government, its territories being constituted the protectorate of Nigeria.

* 1980 – Billy Butlin, South African-English businessman, founded the Butlins Company ( b. 1899 )

An 1899 advertisement for the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company

Lucas made a lease agreement in 1899 with the Gladys City Company and a subsequent agreement with Higgins.

A submarine cable en-route to Britain from Cape Town was landed in November 1899 and extended to Ascension by December and was operated by the Eastern Telegraph Company.

** Columbia Automobile Company ( 1899 – 1913 ), originally expanded from the bicycle line

In the US, the Electric Boat Company was founded in 1899 and built the first submarine purchased by the U. S. Navy in 1900.

The company was founded in 1899 by Isaac Rice as the Electric Boat Company to build John Philip Holland's submersible designs, which were developed at Lewis Nixon's Crescent Shipyard, located in Elizabeth, New Jersey.

It originated as the Buick Auto-Vim and Power Company in 1899, an independent internal combustion engine and motor-car manufacturer, and was later incorporated as the Buick Motor Company on May 19, 1903, by Scottish born David Dunbar Buick in Detroit, Michigan.

The American Steel and Wire Company established in 1899 employed vertical integration: it controlled all aspects of production from producing the steel rods to making many different wire and nail products from the same steel ; although later part of U. S. Steel, the production of barbed wire would still be a major source of revenue

Eastern Telegraph Company 1899 chart of undersea telegraph cabling.

* Laclede Gas Company, still in operation as the Laclede Group, Inc., removed from the Dow Jones Industrial Average in 1899.

Due to the lengthy and expensive process of introducing the world's first practical submarines, Holland, short on funds, had to part with his company and sell his interest to financier Isaac Leopold Rice, renaming the new firm as the Electric Boat Company on 7 February 1899.

The company that emerged from under these developments was called The Electric Boat Company, founded on 7 February 1899.

Keith, agent of the Central Coal and Coke Company in Kansas City, Missouri, began buying virgin timber in the fall of 1899.

The Catawba Power Company had been founded in 1899 by William C. Whitner, Dr. Gill Wylie and his brother Robert Wylie.

The London General Omnibus Company commenced services to Regent Street from the Crown in 1883, in 1899 opening a bus garage ( Garage code W ), which is still in use, although completely rebuilt by 2010.

1899 saw the start of the Kentucky Electrical Lamp Company, a light bulb manufacturing company which eventually was acquired by Kentucky Radio Company ( Ken-Rad ) in 1918 and later acquired by General Electric in 1945 and in 1987 acquired by MPD, Inc., created the light bulbs that illuminated the first night game in the history of Major League Baseball on May 24, 1935, between the Reds and Phillies at Cincinnati's Crosley Field.