Editing Timeline of historic inventions (section)

====1880s====
* '''1881:''' [[Nikolay Benardos]] presents [[carbon arc welding]], the first practical [[arc welding]] method.<ref>{{cite web | title= Beginnings of submerged arc welding | url= http://bulletin.is.gliwice.pl/PDF/2014/03/02_Turyk_Grobosz_Beginnings_of_submerged_arc_welding.pdf | url-status= dead | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160304070057/http://bulletin.is.gliwice.pl/PDF/2014/03/02_Turyk_Grobosz_Beginnings_of_submerged_arc_welding.pdf | archive-date= 4 March 2016}}</ref>
* '''1884:''' [[Hiram Maxim]] invents the [[recoil operation|recoil-operated]] [[Maxim gun]], ushering in the age of semi- and fully automatic firearms.
* '''1884:''' [[Paul Vieille]] invents [[Poudre B]], the first [[smokeless powder]] for firearms.
* '''1884:''' Sir [[Charles Algernon Parsons|Charles Parsons]] invents the modern [[steam turbine]].
* '''1884:''' Hungarian engineers [[Károly Zipernowsky]], [[Ottó Bláthy]] and [[Miksa Déri]] invent the closed core high efficiency transformer and the AC parallel power distribution.
* '''1885:''' [[John Kemp Starley]] invents the modern [[safety bicycle]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Bicycle Association leads birthday celebrations for JK Starley, creator of the Safety bicycle |url=http://www.bicycleassociation.org.uk/page6/files/3670931ce5bd420a443f9e5ff33bbbfd-2.html |website=bicycleassociation.org |publisher=Bicycle Association |access-date=4 January 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150104031640/http://www.bicycleassociation.org.uk/page6/files/3670931ce5bd420a443f9e5ff33bbbfd-2.html |archive-date=4 January 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Britannica Guide to Inventions That Changed the Modern World|publisher=Britannica Educational Publishing|isbn=978-1-61530-064-8|page=124|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mab-a3cBxDApg&q=john+kemp+starley+rover+safety+bicycle&pg=PA124}}{{Dead link|date=August 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* '''1886:''' [[Carl Gassner]] invents the [[zinc–carbon battery]], the first [[dry cell|dry cell battery]], making portable electronics practical.
* '''1886:''' [[Charles Martin Hall]] and independently [[Paul Héroult]] invent the [[Hall–Héroult process]] for economically producing aluminum in 1886.
* '''1886:''' [[Karl Benz]] invents the first petrol or gasoline powered auto-mobile (car).<ref>[http://home.arcor.de/carsten.popp/DE_00037435_A.pdf DRP's patent No. 37435] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120204045616/http://home.arcor.de/carsten.popp/DE_00037435_A.pdf |date=4 February 2012}} ([[Portable Document Format|PDF]], 561 kB, [[German language|German]])</ref>
* '''1887:''' [[Carl Josef Bayer]] invents the [[Bayer process]] for the production of alumina.
* '''1887:''' [[James Blyth (engineer)|James Blyth]] invents the first [[wind turbine]] used for generating electricity.
* '''1887:''' [[John Stewart MacArthur]], working in collaboration with brothers Dr. Robert and Dr. William Forrest, develops the process of [[gold cyanidation]].
* '''1888:''' [[John J. Loud]] invents the [[ballpoint pen]].<ref>Great Britain Patent No. 15630, 30 October 2008</ref>
* '''1888:''' [[Thomas Edison]] and [[William Kennedy Dickson]] invent the [[Kinetoscope]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Today in History - August 31 |url=https://www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/august-31/ |access-date=2023-04-11 |website=Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA}}</ref>
* '''1888:''' [[Heinrich Hertz]] publishes a conclusive proof of [[James Clerk Maxwell]]'s electromagnetic theory in experiments that also demonstrate the existence of [[radio wave]]s. The effects of electromagnetic waves had been observed by many people before this but no usable theory explaining them existed until Maxwell.
* '''1888:''' The first practical [[pneumatic tire]] was made by Scotsman [[John Boyd Dunlop]], the patent was from 1847 by [[Robert William Thomson]]