Short answers, pulled from the story.
The Philological Society formally adopted the idea of a comprehensive new dictionary on the 7th of January 1858. Richard Chenevix Trench presented his report On Some Deficiencies in our English Dictionaries in November 1857 which identified seven distinct shortcomings in contemporary dictionaries.
James Murray began working in a corrugated iron outbuilding called the Scriptorium which was lined with wooden planks and bookshelves. He tracked and regathered quotation slips from Frederick Furnivall while appealing to readers for quotations on ordinary words.
The full dictionary in bound volumes followed immediately after the 125th and last fascicle covered words from Wise to the end of W and was published on the 19th of April 1928. The title Oxford English Dictionary was first used unofficially on the covers of the series in 1895.
The price for an individual to use this edition is £100 or US$100 a year consequently most subscribers are large organizations such as universities. Individuals who belong to a library which subscribes to the service are able to use the service from their own homes without charge.
Editors began a major revision project to create a completely revised third edition expected to be completed in 2037 at a projected cost of circa £34 million. Revisions were started at the letter M with new material appearing every three months on the OED Online website.