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Events relating to technology
London's new Savoy Theatre is the first public building in the world to be lit throughout by electricity
Brooklyn Bridge, the longest suspension bridge in the world, is opened between Brooklyn and lower Manhattan
US entrepreneur James 'Buck' Duke wins exclusive rights in a machine that can manufacture 100,000 cigarettes a day
German engineer Karl Friedrich Benz builds the Tri-Star, a three-wheeled vehicle with an internal combustion that is considered the first commercial automobile
German engineer Gottlied Wilhelm Daimler builds the first successful 4-wheel vehicle with an internal combustion engine
A German physiologist, Adolf Fick, grinds a pair of lenses to fit snugly in contact with a patient's eyeballs
A vast cantilever bridge, spanning a mile of water, carries the railway across the Firth of Forth in Scotland
The world's first electric underground railway passes under the Thames, linking the City of London and Stockwell
Work begins in the Urals and at Vladivostock, laying track which will eventually join up as the Trans-Siberian railway
German aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal achieves the first of many guided flights in a glider, from a hill near Potsdam
Frank Hornby patents in Liverpool his Meccano construction system for children
George Westinghouse demonstrates the advantages of AC (Alternating Current) when he provides 100,000 lights for the Chicago World's Fair
London's Tower Bridge raises its roadway for the first time to let a ship pass up the Thames
21-year-old Guglielmo Marconi succeeds in transmitting a radio signal more than a mile at his home near Bologna
US engineer Henry Ford test-drives his first four-wheel internal-combustion vehicle, the Quadricycle, built in a coal shed behind his home
Otto Lilienthal dies when a wing fractures on his glider and he crashes from a height of 17 metres
22-year-old Guglielmo Marconi takes out a patent in Britain for the invention of radio
Turbinia, powered by the newly invented Parsons steam turbine, breaks the speed record when Queen Victoria reviews her fleet
Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi succeeds in transmitting a wireless telegraph message across the English Channel
Marconi equips two ships to send radio reports to New York on the progress of the yachts racing for the America's Cup
Ferdinand Zeppelin's first dirigible makes its test flight from a floating hangar on the Lake of Constance
Wilbur and Orville Wright test a biplane glider at Kitty Hawk in North Carolina
Daimler cars launch a new brand, the Mercedes 35 hp, named after the ten-year-old daughter of the investor and distributor Emil Jellinek
Ransome Eli Olds manufactures the Curved Dash Oldsmobile on assembly line principles in Detroit
Guglielmo Marconi transmits a radio message in Morse code 2100 miles, from Poldhu in Cornwall to St John's in Newfoundland
