History 1888
Croatian-American Nikola Tesla invents an alternating-current electronic motor. He
also develops early radio technology, but he gets little financial reward for his achievements.
American socialist Edward Bellamy writes Looking Backward, a utopian science-
fiction novel depicting the United States in the year 2000; in Bellamy's world, all industry had
been socialized, and wealth is equitably distributed.
A Belgian woodcarver publishes the song L'Internationale, with lyrics written during
the Paris Commune uprising: Arise, ye prisoners of starvation/ Arise, ye wretched of the
earth.... The song is adopted by the Communist Party.
Five London prostitutes die (they ate poisoned grapes and were then disemboweled).
Jack the Ripper is blamed, but the killer is never caught; the rumor later circulates that Queen
Victoria ordered the murders to distract attention from a scandal involving her son, Prince
Albert.
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