Under Abdülaziz's reign, Turkey's first postage stamps were issued in 1863, and Turkey joined the Universal Postal Union in 1875 as a founding member.

* 1940 – Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.

In May 2006, Wray became one of the first four entertainers to ever be honored by Canada Post by being featured on a postage stamp.

Polk oversaw the opening of the U. S. Naval Academy and the Smithsonian Institution, the groundbreaking for the Washington Monument, and the issuance of the first postage stamps in the United States.

The first adhesive postage stamp, commonly referred to as the Penny Black, was issued in the United Kingdom in 1840.

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This is the first publication of an unambiguous description of a modern adhesive postage stamp ( though the term " postage stamp " did not yet exist at that time ).

The claim that the Scotsman James Chalmers was the inventor of the postage stamp first surfaced in 1881 when the book " The Penny Postage Scheme of 1837 ", written by his son, Patrick Chalmers, was published.

The first independent evidence for Chalmers ' claim is the essay and proposal he submitted for adhesive postage stamps to the General Post Office, dated 8 February 1838 and received by the Post Office on 17 February 1838.

The Penny Black, the world ’ s first postage stamp.

Although a number of people laid claim to the concept of the postage stamp, it is well documented that stamps were first introduced in the United Kingdom on 1 May 1840, as a part of postal reforms promoted by Sir Rowland Hill.

Postmarks have been applied over stamps since the first postage stamps came into use.

When the first postage stamps premiered in the 1840s, they followed an almost identical standard in their shape, size and general subject matter.

For about the first ten years of postage stamp use ( depending on the country ), stamps were issued without perforations.

The first officially perforated postage stamp.

The United Kingdom was the first country to issue postage stamps with perforations, after years of struggle with the unsatisfactory cutting or tearing methods.

The first machine specifically designed to perforate postage stamps was invented in London by Henry Archer, an Irish landowner and railroad man from Dublin, Ireland.

A first day cover usually consists of an envelope, a postage stamp and a postmark with the date of the stamp ’ s first day of issue thereon.

The first postage stamp, the Penny Black, was issued by Britain in 1840 and pictured a young Queen Victoria.

Kwame Nkrumah, the first President of Ghana and theorist of African socialism on a soviet postage stampAfrican socialism has been and continues to be a major ideology around the continent.

The first postage stamp was issued for the island in 1856, the six-pence blue, marking the start of considerable philatelic interest in the island.

Thomas R. Bruce ( postmaster 1898 – 1928 ) was the first islander to design a postage stamp, the 1922 – 1937 George V ship-design — this significantly contributed to island revenues for several years.

One more important innovation in communications was the Penny Black, the first postage stamp, which standardised postage to a flat price regardless of distance sent.

For the first few months of their marriage she had tried to be nice about Gunny, going out with him to watch this pearl without price stamp imperiously around in her stall.

As a consequence of Solomon's failure to stamp out the worship of gods other than Yahweh, the kingdom of David is split in two in the reign of his own son Rehoboam, who becomes the first to reign over the kingdom of Judah.

Romania n stamp from 1959 with Laika ( the caption reads " Laika, first traveller into Cosmos ")

" It was the first stamp in the history of the USPS to include the word " sex ," although as a synonym for gender.

National governments took little heed of his administration at first with the President having to stamp the Commission's authority early on.

In this book, the son claims that James Chalmers first produced an essay describing and advocating a stamp in August 1834.

The first stamp, the penny black, was put on sale on 1 May, to be valid as of 6 May 1840 ; two days later the two pence blue was introduced.

was the first stamp to be perforated in the course of the trials of Archer's perforating machine.

The first officially Postage stamp separation | perforated United States stamp ( 1857 ).

The first stamp issue to be officially perforated, the 3-cent George Washington, was issued by the U. S. Post Office on February 24, 1857.

The United States issued its first circular stamp in 2000 as a hologram of the earth.

Howard Mitchell and the National Symphony perform in the first two releases, designed for grades one and two.

In criticism of the latter's views, his conclusions were based upon dog lung injection studies in which all of the vascular channels were first filled with a solution under pressure and then were injected with various sized colored particles designed to stop at the arteriolar level.

The conductor's preoccupation with the business of starting and stopping caused occasional raggedness, as with the first orchestra entrance in the Fourth Piano Concerto, but when he put his deliberations and obsequies aside and let the music move as designed, it did so with plenty of spring.

* 1937 – Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft, at Rugby, England.

In the 1960s linguist William Stokoe created the first writing system for a sign language, the so-called Stokoe notation, which he designed specifically for ASL.

Babbage's first attempt at a mechanical computing device, the Difference Engine, was a special-purpose calculator designed to tabulate logarithms and trigonometric functions by evaluating finite differences to create approximating polynomials.

He designed the first set of Portuguese written laws.

The modern age of aviation began with the first untethered human lighter-than-air flight on November 21, 1783, in a hot air balloon designed by the Montgolfier brothers.

The first fully armored one was the " Motor War Car " designed by Vickers in England in 1902.

Her first marriage, at the age of fifteen, was to the son of her father's rival in Italy, Lothair II, the nominal King of Italy ; the union was part of a political settlement designed to conclude a peace between her father and Hugh of Provence, the father of Lothair.

The Atari 7800 ProSystem was the first game system from Atari Inc. designed by an outside company, General Computer Corporation ( GCC ).

The first generation of cartridges were flat, and were designed to be stackable for ease of storage.

When Robinson first designed his anemometer, he asserted that the cups moved one-third of the speed of the wind, unaffected by the cup size or arm length.

In 1927 welding pioneer Stefan Bryła designed the first welded road bridge in the world, which was later built across the river Słudwia Maurzyce near Łowicz, Poland in 1929.

The first known cable-stayed bridge was designed in 1784 by C. T.

E. Mark cites Caproni Ca 30 and Bristol TB. 8, both of 1913, as one of the first of heavier-than-air aircraft purposely designed for bombing.

Stroustrup began developing C ++ in 1979 ( then called " C with Classes "), and, in his own words, " invented C ++, wrote its early definitions, and produced its first implementation ... chose and formulated the design criteria for C ++, designed all its major facilities, and was responsible for the processing of extension proposals in the C ++ standards committee.

In the 1930s, musician and inventor Paul Tutmarc from Seattle, Washington, developed the first electric string bass in its modern form, a fretted instrument designed to be held and played horizontally.

One of the first to appear was Tiny BASIC, a simple BASIC variant designed by Dennis Allison at the urging of Bob Albrecht of the Homebrew Computer Club.

Atkinson also designed and implemented HyperCard, the first popular hypermedia system.

The first genome annotation software system was designed in 1995 by Dr. Owen White, who was part of the team at The Institute for Genomic Research that sequenced and analyzed the first genome of a free-living organism to be decoded, the bacterium Haemophilus influenzae.

The first genetically engineered products were medicines designed to treat human diseases.

In 1937 he designed and produced his first snowmobile in his small repair shop in Valcourt, Quebec.

The first snowmobiles were large, multipassenger vehicles designed to help people get around during the long winter months.