Old oak tree

near my mum and dad's home, an old oak tree fell down last year and have a slab of the tree to make a table, its taken some time to sand it down but counted the rings today and there are about 130 - guess that means it was a little acorn in ~1878.

Thats when weather data started to be collected, Cleopatras Needle arrived in London, Thomas Edison patented the gramophone, the Edison light company began, some of the first telephone exchanges were installed, the Tokyo Stock exchange was established and Disraeli anticipated war with Russia