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The Housemans of Nidderdale
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 1885 - 1886 (1 year) Submit Photo / Document
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| 1 | 1885 | - 1885—1885: Carl Benz builds the 'Motorwagen', a single-cylinder motor car
- 1885—1885: Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first motorcycle
- 1885—1885: Eastman makes first coated photographic paper
- 1885—1885: Canadian Pacific Railway completed
- March 1885—March 1885: First UK cremation in modern times took place at Woking
- 5 September 1885—5 September 1885: The first train runs through the Severn Tunnel
- 29 September 1885—29 September 1885: First electric tramcar used at Blackpool
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| 2 | 1886 | - 20 January 1886—20 January 1886: Mersey railway (under Mersey) opened by Prince of Wales
- May 1886—May 1886: Pharmacist John Styth Pemberton invents a carbonated beverage later named 'Coca-Cola'
- 29 May 1886—29 May 1886: Putney Bridge opens in London
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