January 1888

Tuesday 03:

The 91 cm refracting telescope at Lick Observatory is used for the first time. It was the largest telescope in the world at the time.

Jacob L. Wortman patents the typewriter ribbon.

In Washington, DC the National Geographic Society is founded.

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