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| 1875 |
| | | William Crookes invents the radiometer, in which light causes four vanes to rotate in a bulb containing gas at low pressure | |
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| 1876 |
| | | Alexander Graham Bell makes the first practical use of his telephone, summoning his assistant from another room with the words 'Mr Watson, come here. I want to see you.' | |
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| 1876 |
| | | The US inventor Thomas Edison opens an experimental laboratory at Menlo Park, New Jersey, calling it his 'invention factory' | |
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| 1876 |
| | | Alexander Graham Bell demonstrates his new invention, the telephone, at the US Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia | |
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| 1877 |
| | | The human voice is recorded for the first time when Thomas Edison recites 'Mary had a little lamb' into his newly patented phonograph | |
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| 1878 |
| | | English physicist Joseph Swan demonstrates a practical electric light bulb, using an incandescent carbon filament in a vacuum | |
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| 1879 |
| | | English physicist Joseph Swan receives a patent for bromide paper, which becomes the standard material for printing photographs | |
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| 1879 |
| | | Thomas Edison develops a long-lasting carbon filament light bulb (traditionally 40 hours) and is able to light his Menlo Park laboratory with 30 bulbs | |
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| 1881 |
| | | London's new Savoy Theatre is the first public building in the world to be lit throughout by electricity | |
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| 1884 |
| | | US entrepreneur James 'Buck' Duke wins exclusive rights in a machine that can manufacture 100,000 cigarettes a day | |
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