The first two shots of Seen Through the Telescope ( 1900 ), with the telescope POV simulated by the circular mask.

The British Royal Society of Chemistry claims that British scientist Edward Harrison developed the first practical gas mask for mass production, a claim supported by a thank-you note written by Winston Churchill.

Reading a newspaper article describing a gas attack on British forces which he hypothesized had employed chlorine gas, Garner remembered experiments he had performed while teaching at the University of Chicago, thus he set about creating the first gas mask which he tested on two of his associates in a gas filled chamber.

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Also during the scene where he first dons his trademark metal mask, a plaque can be seen declaring it as a gift to Doom from the people of Latveria.

* 1959 – Montreal Canadiens goaltender Jacques Plante wears a protective mask for the first time in an NHL game.

The Zanni at first wore a full faced carnival mask, but because of the need for dialogue between Pantalone and the Zanni, the bottom of the mask was hinged and eventually cut away altogether.

These effects are often undesirable, in the first case amounting to unwanted transmission of energy which may adversely affect nearby equipment or other parts of the same piece of equipment ; and in the second case, unwanted pickup of noise which may mask the desired signal being carried by the cable, or, if the cable is carrying power supply or control voltages, pollute them to such an extent as to cause equipment malfunction.

Foucault's first biographer, Didier Eribon, described the philosopher as " a complex, many-sided character ", and that " under one mask there is always another ".

** The first known underwater diving club in Britain, " The Amphibians Club ", is formed in Aberdeen by Ivor Howitt ( who modified an old civilian gas mask ) and some friends.

Upon completion, Hitler gave Schmidt a unique uniform with a grotesque red skull mask, and he emerged as the Red Skull ( in literal German: Roter Totenkopf or Roter ( Toten -) Schädel ) for the first time.

Plante was the first NHL goaltender to wear a goaltender mask in regulation play on a regular basis.

Until 1968, every color television sold used the RCA shadow mask concept, in the spring of that year Sony introduced their first Trinitron sets.

One of the first truly new television systems to enter the market since the 1950s, the Trinitron was announced in 1966 to wide acclaim for its bright images, about 25 % brighter than common shadow mask televisions of the same era.

Vestris was the first dancer to discard the mask and to use his face in mime.

Cochran was also the first woman to land and take off from an aircraft carrier, the first woman to reach Mach 2, the first woman to pilot a bomber across the North Atlantic ( in 1941 ), the first pilot to make a blind ( instrument ) landing, the only woman ever to be President of the Federation Aeronautique International ( 1958 – 1961 ), the first woman to fly a fixed-wing, jet aircraft across the Atlantic, the first pilot to fly above 20, 000 ft with an oxygen mask, and the first woman to enter the Bendix Transcontinental Race.

He never, it is said, put on the mask for the character he had to perform in, without first looking at it attentively from a distance for some time, that so in performing he might preserve his voice and action in perfect keeping with the appearance he would have.

It was this season that Clint Benedict of the Maroons became the first goaltender in NHL history to wear a mask when he donned one to protect a broken nose.

His first job at age 13 in 1848 was as a bobbin boy, changing spools of thread in a cotton mill 12 hours a day, 6 days a week in a Pittsburgh cotton factory.

Former Pittsburgh Pirate manager Lloyd McClendon is jokingly referred to as having " stolen first " in a June 26, 2001 game – after disputing a call at first base, he yanked the base out of the ground and left the field with it, delaying the game.

Boston was a dominant team in the new league, defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first World Series in and winning four more championships by.

When the Cubs clinched the Eastern Division with a Sutcliffe complete-game 2-hitter at Pittsburgh on September 23, the franchise had its first title of any kind since 1945.

The Boston Americans played the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first modern World Series in 1903.

" On October 1, 1903 the first modern World Series between the American League champion Boston Pilgrims ( later known as the Red Sox ) and the National League champion Pittsburgh Pirates was played on this site.

Social work pioneer and journal editor Paul Kellogg offered Eastman her first job, investigating labor conditions for The Pittsburgh Survey sponsored by the Russell Sage Foundation.

The first successful permanent theatre showing nothing but films was " The Nickelodeon ", which was opened in Pittsburgh in 1905.

* 1954 – The first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine begins in Pittsburgh.

* 1856 – The Republican Party opens its first national meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

* 1940 – Basketball is televised for the first time ( Fordham University vs. the University of Pittsburgh in Madison Square Garden ).

After a fruitless search, Kelly returned to Pittsburgh, to his first position as a choreographer with the Charles Gaynor musical revue Hold Your Hats at the Pittsburgh Playhouse in April, 1938.

Greenberg was sold to the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1947, became the very first baseball player to earn over $ 80, 000 / year in salary ( he was paid $ 100, 000, ($ today ) plus $ 25, 000 that his contract with Detroit called for in the event they sold or traded him ).

To persuade him not to retire, Pittsburgh made Greenberg the first baseball player to earn over $ 80, 000 ($ today ) in a season as pure salary ( though the exact amount is a matter of some dispute ).

The Colts won their first postseason game as the Indianapolis Colts in 1995 and would go onto the AFC Championship Game against the Pittsburgh Steelers, coming Hail Mary pass reception away from a trip to the Super Bowl XXX.

* 1949 – The first " networked " television broadcasts take place as KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania goes on the air connecting the east coast and mid-west programming.

The next week against the Pittsburgh Steelers, the Jaguars earned their first home win by defeating the eventual AFC Champions 20 – 16.

The Jaguars defeated the Pittsburgh Steelers 31 – 29 to win their first playoff game in almost eight years and their first road playoff win since 1997.

* In 1972, the first active-matrix liquid crystal display panel was produced in the United States by Westinghouse, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

They first swept the Pittsburgh Pirates, thanks to walk-off home runs by Prince Fielder and Ryan Braun, tying the New York Mets for the Wild Card lead with 3 games to go against the NL Central division champion Chicago Cubs.

* 1920 – In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station.

* 1903 – Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.

* " The Tuesday Night Club " ( short story ) featured Miss Marple for the first time ever.

The first book assumes that gamemasters will set their campaigns after the Patternfall war ; that is, after the end of the fifth book in the series, The Courts of Chaos, but uses material from the following books to describe those parts of Zelazny's cosmology that were featured there in more detail.

The song " The Raven " featured lead vocals by the actor Leonard Whiting, and, according to the 2007 remastered album liner notes, was the first rock song to use a digital vocoder, with Alan Parsons speaking lyrics through it.

This verse is also featured in William Billing's popular Sacred Harp song " David's Lamentation ", first published in 1778.

A parody of Metastasian opera-seria it featured dazzling parodies of the high flown and emotive aria's found in that genre, as well as bold and innovative orchestrations, including the first known use of three tympani.

He also wrote songs, including his Seven Early Songs ( Sieben Frühe Lieder ), three of which were Berg's first publicly performed work in a concert that featured the music of Schoenberg's pupils in Vienna that year.

The 5200 also featured the innovation of the first automatic TV switchbox, allowing it to automatically switch from regular TV viewing to the game system signal when the system was activated.

* The first Christmas special featured the pair sitting in front of the television providing crude commentary on various aspects of Christmas, and commenting on Christmas-themed music videos from various artists.

These longer strips include The Bash Street Kids Adventures written and drawn by Kev F Sutherland which since 2004 have featured parodies of famous comic strip images, including Amazing Fantasy's first Spider-Man cover, Action Comics ' first Superman cover, and most recently the cover of X Men # 100.

Behind a potent offense that featured Graham, Groza, Motley, Lavelli and running back Dub Jones, the Browns finished the 1950 regular season with a 10 – 2 record, tied for first place in their conference.

Cerberus featured in many prominent works of Greek and Roman literature, most famously in Virgil's Aeneid, Peisandros of Rhodes ' epic poem the Labours of Hercules, the story of Orpheus in Plato's Symposium, and in Homer's Iliad, which is the only known reference to one of Heracles ' labours which first appeared in a literary source.

Another early step in the history of computer animation was the 1973 movie Westworld, a science-fiction film about a society in which robots live and work among humans, though the first use of 3D Wireframe imagery was in its sequel, Futureworld ( 1976 ), which featured a computer-generated hand and face created by then University of Utah graduate students Edwin Catmull and Fred Parke.

The 1980s featured some of the most prominent storylines in the programme's history, such as Deirdre Barlow's affair with Mike Baldwin in 1983, the first soap storyline to receive widespread media attention.

Black and Asian characters had appeared, but it was not until 1999 that the show featured its first regular non-white family, the Desai family.

* in Doctor Who's first series after its revival, episodes 4-5 and 11 featured the alien Slitheen family of the planet Raxicoricofallapatorius, which were said to be Calcium-based life forms, causing them to be blown up in contact with vinegar.

Jones ' first cartoon was The Night Watchman, which featured a cute kitten who would later evolve into Sniffles the mouse.

In 1954, he was featured on the cover of Time ( magazine ), the second jazz musician to be so honored ( the first was Louis Armstrong on February 21, 1949 ).

Also in 1947, the Whiskey à Go-Go nightclub opened in Paris, France, considered to be the world's first commercial discothèque, or disco ( deriving its name from the French word meaning a nightclub where the featured entertainment is recorded music rather than an on-stage band ).

: The first, Doctor Syn ( 1937 ), featured noted actor George Arliss in the title role and was its star's last film.

Louis Jordan, the first innovator of this style, featured an upright bass in his group, the Tympany Five.

Their first two music videos, " Secret Agent Man " and " Jocko Homo " featured on The Truth About De-Evolution, were filmed in Akron, the hometown of most members.

In December 2007, Devo released their first new single since 1990, " Watch Us Work It ," which was featured in a commercial for Dell.

The group released a new album entitled Justus, the first album since 1967's Headquarters that featured the band members performing all instrumental duties.

Speech featured a heavy stress on the first syllable of a word, causing syncopation by weakening of the remaining vowels, which then were not represented in writing: Alcsntre for Alexandros, Rasna for Rasena.