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Hey, Remember the 80s?

Development and commercial production of electric lighting!
Development and commercial production of gasoline-powered automobile by Karl Benz, Gottlieb Daimler and Maybach!
First commercial production and sales of phonographs and phonograph recordings!
First steel tird construction "sky-scrapers"!
Construction begins on the Panama Canal by the French. This is the first attempt to build the Canal!

Heinrich Hertz discovers the photoelectric effect!
Michelson-Morley experiment, showing that the speed of light is invariant!
James-Lange theory of emotion!

First Boer War!
The New Imperialism!

Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn!
Feodor Dostoevsky publishes The Brothers Karamazov!
Robert Louis Stevenson publishes Treasure Island!
Paul Fusco operated the Alf puppet, supplied Alf's voice and co-produced the series with Tom Patchett!
First edition of Oxford English Dictionary published!
Arthur Conan Doyle publishes his first Sherlock Holmes tale!

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