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.

Greenland is believed by some geologists to have some of the world ’ s largest remaining oil resources: in 2001, the U. S. Geological Survey found that the waters off north-eastern Greenland ( north and south of the arctic circle ) could contain up to of oil and, in 2010, the British petrochemical company Cairns Oil reported " the first firm indications " of commercially viable oil deposits.

While conventional apartments are more cost-effective with better amenities, tenants unable to pay first and last month's rent in advance or undesirable to residential landlords due to unemployment, criminal records or credit problems do seek low-end residential motels due to perceived lack of viable short-term options.

" Since any sequel to the original Quake had already been refused, it became a viable way of continuing the series without actually continuing the storyline or setting of the first game.

With the arrival of commercially viable charge-coupled device ( CCD ) technology in the 1980s, first the pickup tubes were replaced with this kind of sensors.

The gathering of approximately 30, 000 like-minded people made the Human Be-In the first event that confirmed there was a viable hippie scene.

* May 21 – Henry Warren, inventor of the first commercially viable electric clock, the Telechron ( d. 1957 )

Genette further discussed how Aristotle revised Plato's system by first eliminating the pure narrative as a viable mode.

The first three multiples would be viable for use within a metric time system ; they are:

Gutenberg's key invention and contribution to movable-type printing in Europe, the hand mould was the first practical means of making cheap copies of letterpunches in the vast quantities needed to print complete books, making the movable-type printing process a viable enterprise.

A viable first strike capability would require the ability to launch a 100 % effective ( or nearly so ) counterforce attack.

In 2006, the first tests in the deep-water block struck oil, but not in commercially viable quantities.

Planted in 1996, these palms are now some of the largest in the UK and for the last few years have fruited and produced viable seed, the first time this species of palm has been recorded doing so in the UK.

Later by-elections kept media attention on the party, and it was for the first time allowed to pose as a viable component of the broader right.

The system developed by Case and his assistant, Earl Sponable, given the name Movietone, thus became the first viable sound-on-film technology controlled by a Hollywood movie studio.

In 1962, Morgan Stanley credits itself with having created the first viable computer model for financial analysis, thereby starting a new trend in the field of financial analysis.

After first dispatching the already much weakened Ivar in 977, he challenged Máel Muad in 978 and defeated him in the fateful Battle of Belach Lechta, after which all the Eóganachta were no longer viable at the provincial level and Brian and the Dál Cais now enjoyed the overlordship, although not the traditional kingship of the province, which was based on lineage.

The first commercially viable picture-phone was developed in Nevada City.

The L0pht was one of the first viable hackerspaces in the US.

Politics at the local level in Pulaski County were traditionally dominanted by the Democratic Party, but Republican Party candidates have become increasingly viable in the years since 2002, when the first large-scale victories of Republican candidates began.

* 1865-The China Inland Mission is founded by James Hudson Taylor ; James Laidlaw Maxwell plants first viable church in Taiwan.

The Moore lamp was the first commercially viable light-source based on gas discharges instead of incandescence ; it was the predecessor to contemporary neon lighting and fluorescent lighting.

The city had been first envisioned as an automobile-based bedroom community, but subsequent leaders began to envision it as a " stand-alone " development with a viable downtown area.

In the first instance, as markets matured to where several providers could be financially viable offering similar services, prices determined by competition were seen as more economically efficient than those set by regulatory process.

But only the invention of the first commercially viable high-voltage spark plug as part of a magneto-based ignition system by Robert Bosch's engineer Gottlob Honold in 1902 made possible the development of the internal combustion engine.