Technology
- July 3 - Ottmar Mergenthaler's Linotype machine is introduced at the New-York Tribune.
- September 21 - William Stanley, Jr. patents the induction coil in the United States, the first practical alternating current transformer device.
- October 31 - Opening of Dom Luís Bridge, Porto, a two-hinged double-deck arch bridge across the Douro River in Portugal designed by Téophile Seyrig. Its main span of 172 metres (564 ft) will remain the world's longest in iron.
- Gottlieb Daimler produces the first motorboat, Neckar, in Germany.
- Herbert Akroyd Stuart produces his first prototype heavy oil engines, in England.
- Schuyler Wheeler produces the first electric fan, in the United States.
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