What inventions & science looked like in the 1880s
Bare light bulbs, telephones and early power stations start to appear.
A room lit by electric bulbs but full of gas fittings is right on the change.
1880s moments in the game
Dating a inventions & science scene
- Lighting
- Candles and oil lamps before 1820; gas lamps to about 1890; bare electric bulbs after 1880; fluorescent tubes after 1940.
- Machines
- Brass and polished wood instruments are 1700–1900; steel and Bakelite 1900–1950; beige plastic and screens after 1970.
- Exhibition halls
- Huge glass-and-iron halls are the great fairs of 1851–1900; Art Deco pavilions point to the 1920s–30s.