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 1890 - 1892 (1 year)
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| 1 | 1890 | - 4 Mar 1890: Forth railway bridge opens – took six years to build
- 4 Nov 1890: City & South London Railway opens – London's first deep-level tube railway
and first major railway in the world to use electric traction
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| 2 | 1891 | - 1891: Primary education made free and compulsory
- 18 Mar 1891: First telephone link between London & Paris
- 4 May 1891: Fictional date when Sherlock Holmes throws Moriarty over Reichenbach Falls, then disappears for 3 years! (published in 1893)
- 24 Aug 1891: Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera
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| 3 | 1892 | - 1892: Electric oven invented
- 1892: Shop Hours Act – limit 74 hours per week for under-18's
- 6 Oct 1892: Alfred Lord Tennyson dies, aged 83, at his house Aldworth, near Haslemere
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