In the 1880s, with the invention of the typewriter, more women began to enter the field, and since World War I, the role of secretary has been primarily associated with women.

The 1870s and 1880s saw the invention of three technologies that we take for granted today, but were revolutionary in their day: the electric light bulb, the telephone and centrally-generated electricity generation.

He showed his invention at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and continued to work on these and other various paper fasteners through the 1880s.

The current design of a cane handle spliced into a willow blade was the invention in the 1880s of Charles Richardson, a pupil of Brunel and the first chief engineer of the Severn railway tunnel.

Before Nathanael Greene Herreshoff invention of sail tracks and slides in the 1880s, mainsails were limited in height.

Its invention is attributed to Andrei Sychra, who also wrote a method for the guitar, as well as over one thousand compositions, seventy-five of which were republished in the 1840s by Stellovsky, and then again in the 1880s by Gutheil.

Throughout the late 1880s prices were maintained by an informal cartel of foundries, but as the number of foundries increased and with the invention of hot metal type, prices dropped dramatically.

Photography became available to an ever-widening population with the invention of George Eastman's paper photographs in the late 1880s and the mass production of the Kodak Brownie, a camera designed to be simple ( and inexpensive ) enough for a child, in 1900.

The invention of the gas meter and the pre-payment meter in the late 1880s played an important role in selling town gas to domestic and commercial customers.

The invention of the Russian guitar is attributed to Andrei Sychra, who also wrote a method for the instrument, as well as over one thousand compositions, seventy-five of which were republished in the 1840s by Stellovsky, and then again in the 1880s by Gutheil.

In the 1880s, Eadweard Muybridge, at the dawn of the invention of the motion picture, used a device he called a zoopraxiscope to project a series of successive still photographs.

Relations between settlers and indigenous peoples in the Verde Valley were essentially peaceful from that point on and with the rapid increase in settlers along Oak Creek, although there were " Indian scares " into the 1880s mostly in connection with conflicts elsewhere: In the words of settler W. A. Jordan, in about 1880 " The settlers were in no danger from this band of hunters he had just met between Clarkdale and Cornville, but they were so wrought up over the stories of massacres and murders that the Indians themselves were in the greatest danger.

In the 1880s, the lumber industry experienced a boom, due largely to two key innovations — the band saw and the logging railroad.

Many public and private schools have sponsored music clubs and groups, most commonly including the marching band that performs at high school sports games, a trend that began with the wide popularity of Sousa's bands in the 1880s and 1890s.

The 1880s saw the decline of traditional music ; however, Janáček brought a Moravian string band to the 1895 Ethnographical Exhibition in Prague, which led to increased feelings of national pride and identity, and a resurgence in traditional music.

Throughout the 1870s and 1880s, Elmira acquired various cultural trappings, including a brass band ( 1873 ) and a library ( 1885 ), which boasted an initial membership of 20 people.

In the late 1880s, Rosas is reported to be a member of a military band, and in 1891 he worked in Michoacán.

Named after Chief One Arrow, a signatory to Treaty Six at Fort Carlton in 1876, the band had land disputes with the Métis of Batoche in the 1880s, and their supposed role in the Northwest Rebellion is quite controversial.

It was not until the early 1880s that Ann Arbor again saw robust growth, with new immigrants coming from Greece, Italy, Russia, and Poland.

The 1880s saw the construction of a number of elegant homes and commercial buildings and the growth of a distinctive identity for Fort Collins.

The 1880s saw the revival of the Gothic as a powerful literary form allied to fin de siecle, which fictionalized contemporary fears like ethical degeneration and questioned the social structures of the time.

The 1880s saw the development of the Bessemer process for producing steel.

The 1880s saw the club develop a penchant for inter-colonial travel with trips to Tasmania ( 1881 / 1887 ) and South Australia ( 1889 ).

The 1880s saw the rise of Parnell and the Home rule movement ; the 1890s saw the momentum of nationalism, while the Catholics became prominent around the turn of the century.

The 1880s saw a steep decline in the prices of grain and other agricultural commodities.

The 1880s and 1890s saw police whistles made by W Dowler & Sons, J Hudson & Co, J Barrall, R A Walton, H A Ward and A De Courcy & Co.

He notes that the 1880s saw the Mahdi uprisings, the first time the Western world had to face militant Islamic fundamentalism ; physicists were beginning to make discoveries that would pave the way to the atomic bomb ; and the growth of both Zionism and anti-Semitism.

The 1880s saw the appearance of a number of articles on the missions in national publications and the first books on the subject ; as a result, a large number of artists did one or more mission paintings, though few attempted a series.

Works in the 1880s, funded by the publisher William Nelson and carried out by Hippolyte Blanc, saw the Argyle Tower built over the Portcullis Gate, and the Great Hall restored after years of use as a barracks.

Deer Park saw immense growth during the mid to late 1880s, primarily because of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.

The early 1880s saw a second railroad constructed from the Pontiac area, through Oxford to Port Austin.

Chinese miners took over from whites when the mines began to play out in 1868, and the town saw a brief revival after the arrival of the railroads and the establishment of a post office in the 1880s.

By the 1880s there was a church, store, hotels, grist and saw mill, tannery sash & blind factory, wagon shop, 2 blacksmith shops, cheese box factory, cabinet shop, & a bootjack & ladder manufacturer & house building was booming.

Three pickle factories were in operation by the Civil War, and in the 1880s the construction of the Putnam Railroad and New Croton Aqueduct led to a population boom which saw the installation of electric lighting and improved roads.

During the 1880s and 1890s giant, steam powered saw mills were located in the borough sawing millions of board feet of lumber and driving our economy.

The 1880s and 1890s saw a construction boom, with hotels, private summer homes and municipal buildings going up.

The 1880s saw a boom in the development of mineral springs resorts as " summer getaways ," due in part to the publicity received by places such as Saratoga Springs in New York.

A number of churches saw their beginning in the 1880s: the Central Baptist, First Presbyterian, Saint Agnes Roman Catholic, First Methodist, and Saint Paul Baptist Church.

The 1880s saw a sawmill, gristmill, and woolen mill built in West Jordan.

In the late 1880s, a man was traveling through on the rail and saw a very pretty young woman at the Ronceverte Depot.

From the 1880s through the 1920s, logging took place in many groves in spite of marginal commercial returns.

Mr. Wakefield became interested in logging and real estate and acquired vast tracts of land in the western Upper Peninsula of Michigan in the 1870s and 1880s.

Gradually, additional people settled in the area, and by the end of the 1880s, a small number of logging, farming and boat-building communities were established.

By the 1880s, logging companies were damming the river to ensure the river had enough capacity for the logs being floated downstream.

Beginning in the 1880s and 1890s, logging grew until there were two major logging companies.

By the 1880s, Sechelt had become an active centre for the logging and fishing industries, with the construction of sawmills and wharves.

In the 1880s, Knoxville businessman John L. English began a small-scale logging project along Jakes Creek.

ANR was founded in the 1880s as a logging route, and at its peak operated over of railroad.

Heavy logging and other resource depletion beginning in the 1880s led conservationists to push for the preservation the forest.