FIRSTS IN HISTORY
Added on: 29th Oct 2015
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.
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