FIRSTS IN HISTORY

FIRST COMMERCIAL PASSENGER SPACECRAFT

On March 23, 2010 the Virgin Spaceship Enterprise of Virgin Galactic

performed its first test flight in California. Although flights were

scheduled to start in 2012, the ship crashed in 2014 during a test

flight and deadlines have been pushed back.

FIRST SUPERCOMPUTER

Cray-1, the world’s first supercomputer was installed at Los Alamos

National Laboratory in the United States in 1976. It cost $8.8 million.

FIRST ANIMAL TO RECEIVE TWO BIONIC LEG IMPLANTS

In June 2010 Oscar the cat received his bionic limbs after losing them

to a combine harvester.

FIRST VIDEO GAME

Often a source of controversy, if you bypass the whole digital thing, the

first time any game was played on a screen was in 1947. Thomas T.

Goldsmith Jr. and Estle Ray Mann created something called the Cathode

Ray Tube Amusement Device. It was a missile simulator that used

analogue circuitry.

FIRST EXTRATERRESTRIAL TORNADOES (DUST DEVILS)

So it’s obviously not the first time a tornado touched down on another

planet but when the Viking spacecraft recorded dust devils on Mars’s

surface in the 1970s it was the first time we had proof!

FIRST ROAD MAP

Roman Emperor Augustus Caesar commissioned the first known road

Maps to be created, not surprisingly because the Romans were

famous for the roads they built. It took nearly twenty years to

complete the first map!

FIRST FLASH MOB

The first flash mob confirmed by the Guinness Book of World Records

took place in New York City in a New York City shop in 2003.

Police were tipped off beforehand though.

FIRST WATCH

The first officially produced portable/wearable clock was the

Nuremberg Egg. It was designed by Peter Hemlein of Germany in 1509.