ASCII itself was first used commercially during 1963 as a seven-bit teleprinter code for American Telephone & Telegraph's TWX ( TeletypeWriter eXchange ) network.

* 1859 – Petroleum is discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania leading to the world's first commercially successful oil well.

The first sulfonamide and first commercially available antibacterial antibiotic, Prontosil, was developed by a research team led by Gerhard Domagk in 1932 at the Bayer Laboratories of the IG Farben conglomerate in Germany.

It was one of the first commercially manufactured antibiotics universally and very effectively used to treat wounds and ulcers during World War II.

It was the first commercially available Dutch personal / home computer.

* 1973 – Martin Cooper of Motorola made the first handheld mobile phone call to Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs, though it took ten years for the DynaTAC 8000X to become the first such phone to be commercially released.

The first commercially produced synthetic adhesive was Karlsons klister in the 1920s.

Acrylics were first made commercially available in the 1950s.

The first commercially sold disk drive, the IBM 350, had 50 ( not 32 or 64 ) physical disk " platters " containing a total of 50, 000 sectors of 100 characters each, for a total quoted capacity of " 5 million characters.

Since the introduction of the first commercially available microprocessor ( the Intel 4004 ) in 1970, and the first widely used microprocessor ( the Intel 8080 ) in 1974, this class of CPUs has almost completely overtaken all other central processing unit implementation methods.

In 1816, Henry Hall first commercially grew cranberries in East Dennis, Massachusetts on Cape Cod.

The Arithmometer, invented in 1820 as a four-operation mechanical calculator, was released to production in 1851 as an adding machine and became the first commercially successful unit ; forty years later, by 1890, about 2, 500 arithmometers had been sold plus a few hundreds more from two arithmometer clone makers ( Burkhardt, Germany, 1878 and Layton, UK, 1883 ) and Felt and Tarrant, the only other competitor in true commercial production, had sold 100 comptometers.

In 1995, The Ultimate Doom ( version 1. 9, including episode IV ) was released, making this the first time that Doom was sold commercially in stores.

And in September 2011 Dialog Semiconductor announced the first commercially available DECT ULE devices.

Digital video was first introduced commercially in 1986 with the Sony D-1 format, which recorded an uncompressed standard definition component video signal in digital form instead of the high-band analog forms that had been commonplace until then.

In 1951, Leo Fender independently released his Precision Bass, the first commercially successful electric bass guitar.

The Doctor V64 unit was the first commercially available backup device for the Nintendo 64 unit.

The first commercially successful automobile, created by Karl Benz, added to the interest in light and powerful engines.

The first commercially successful emerald synthesis process was that of Carroll Chatham.

Later the project was supported by J. Lyons & Co. Ltd., a British firm, who were rewarded with the first commercially applied computer, LEO I, based on the EDSAC design.

The kinetoscope, first shown commercially by Thomas Edison in the United States in 1894, was first shown in Japan in November 1896.

At that time consideration will be given to whether in the light of the United States supplies of rice available for Title 1, disposal, India's production, consumption and stocks of food grains, other imports from the United States and countries friendly to the United States, India's storage capacity, and other related factors, any increase would be possible in the portion of the total rice programmed which is currently planned for procurement during the first year.

In the first two months of 1961, earnings of the Illinois highway available for interest payments were up 55 per cent from early 1960.

The 2600 port was the first game to use a bank-switched cartridge, doubling available ROM space.

Each of the first three powers is available in an advanced form.

AES is available in many different encryption packages, and is the first publicly accessible and open cipher approved by the National Security Agency ( NSA ) for top secret information when used in an NSA approved cryptographic module ( see Security of AES, below ).

Since the first discovery in 1884, fossils of more than thirty individuals have been recovered, providing scientists with a more detailed knowledge of Albertosaurus anatomy than is available for most other tyrannosaurids.

The driver will pick up more passengers as long as seats are available, and will transport them to their destination based on first come first served rules.

Florey and Chain succeeded in purifying the first penicillin, penicillin G procaine in 1942, but it did not become widely available outside Allied military before 1945.

The first is being planned for Lake Havasu City with programs available as early as fall 2012.

" The project, later called the Mills Commission, concluded that " Base Ball had its origins in the United States " and " the first scheme for playing baseball, according to the best evidence available to date, was devised by Abner Doubleday at Cooperstown, N. Y., in 1839.

The Amiga was one of the first home computers for which inexpensive sound sampling and video digitization accessories were available.

It is also possible to ignore the 68k CPU and run Linux on the PPC ( project Linux APUS ), but a PowerPC native AmigaOS promised by Amiga Technologies GmbH was not available when the PowerUP boards first appeared.

* Three-volume biography, first volume available in English, ISBN 3842340923.

Additionally, a wide range of first and third party hardware extensions such as external disk drives, printers, and memory extensions, was available.

Shortly after World War II, the first general purpose computers became available.

In addition, a 2010 Cochrane Collaboration review of trials of Risperidone, one of the biggest selling antipsychotics and the first of the new generation to become available in generic form, found only marginal benefit compared with placebo and that, despite its widespread use, evidence remains limited, poorly reported and probably biased in favor of risperidone due to pharmaceutical company funding of trials.

By the first century BC brass was available in sufficient supply to use as coinage in Phrygia and Bithynia, and after the Augustan currency reform of 23 BC it was also used to make Roman dupondii and sestertii.

The Cincinnati Red Stockings were the first to so declare themselves as openly professional, and were easily the most aggressive in recruiting the best available players.

Blowfish was one of the first secure block ciphers not subject to any patents and therefore freely available for anyone to use.

* Split ( only available as first decision of a hand ): If the first two cards have the same value, the player can split them into two hands, by moving a second bet equal to the first into an area outside the betting box of the original bet.