2003 also saw the opening of the Gaydon factory, the first purpose-built factory in Aston Martin's history.

Many Greek sculptures followed, notably the first purpose-built exhibition space, the Charles Towneley collection, much of it Roman Sculpture, in 1805.

The first purpose-built passenger car, dubbed Experiment, was attached, and carried dignitaries on the opening journey.

* 1838: the first steamship purpose-built for regularly scheduled trans-Atlantic crossings enters service.

* 1886 – Karl Benz officially unveils the Benz Patent Motorwagen – the first purpose-built automobile.

At first improvised, purpose-built designs were developed.

*, the first purpose-built aircraft carrier of the United States Navy,

* Saab 29 Tunnan ( first purpose-built jet fighter ) ( manufactured 1950 – 1956, 661 built )

* St Christopher's Hospice, the world's first purpose-built secular hospice specialising in palliative care of the terminally ill, is established in South London by Cicely Saunders.

* December – The British government begins work on a 40-acre ( 162, 000 m² ) site at Norman Cross for the world's first purpose-built prisoner-of-war camp.

* Bingley Hall, the world's first purpose-built exhibition hall, opens in Birmingham, England.

The first club was formed in 1897, and the first purpose-built track solely for bobsleds was opened in 1902 outside of St Moritz.

* The first purpose-built accommodation for students ( the Mob Quad ) is completed in Merton College, Oxford, England.

Dodge had offered panel delivery models for many years since its founding, but their first purpose-built van model arrived for 1964 with the compact A Series.

The museum was one of the first purpose-built museums to be constructed outside of London.

Flamsteed House, the original part of the Observatory, was designed by Sir Christopher Wren probably with the assistance of Robert Hooke and was the first purpose-built scientific research facility in Britain.

The first vessels purpose-built to carry containers began operation in Denmark in 1951.

The world's first purpose-built container ship was the Clifford J. Rodgers, built in Montreal in 1955 and owned by the White Pass and Yukon Route.

Its first trip carried 600 containers between North Vancouver, British Columbia and Skagway, Alaska, on November 26, 1955 ; in Skagway, the containers were unloaded to purpose-built railroad cars for transport north to the Yukon, in the first intermodal service using trucks, ships and railroad cars.

* The Fokker S-14 Machtrainer was one of the first purpose-built jet training aircraft in the world ( 1951 ).

The GT1 class was for the purebred supercars and purpose-built race cars, such as the McLaren F1 GTR, Ferrari F40, Porsche 911 GT1, Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR, Toyota GT-One and Nissan R390 – while the first two were a derivatives of roadgoing sports cars, the German and Japanese contenders were pure-bred racing cars – virtually sports prototypes.

From then on, racing in Europe ( apart from Italy ) would be on closed circuits, initially on long loops of public highway and then, in 1907, on the first purpose-built track, England's Brooklands.

Located in a purpose-built building inspired by Japanese metabolism, is was the first museum in Taiwan dedicated to modern art.

In the first instance, adequate appropriate reading materials and library accommodations must be planned.

It is probable that the first collection of astronomical observations and terrestrial omens was made for a library established by Sargon.

Thus, the Turun Sanomat Building first heralded Aalto's move towards modernism, and this was then carried forward both in the Paimio Sanatorium and in the on-going design for the library.

* Ioannis Kapodistrias, the first leader of free modern Greece ( 1776 – 1831 ), had a large building erected ; intended as a barracks, it was subsequently used as a museum, a library and a school.

Bertrand Russell, the first to discuss the paradox in print, attributed it to G. G. Berry ( 1867 – 1928 ), a junior librarian at Oxford's Bodleian library, who had suggested the more limited paradox arising from the expression " the first undefinable ordinal ".

Sagan recalled taking his first trips to the public library alone, at the age of five, when his mother got him a library card.

After the first, each schedule was an expansion of the previous one, and Cutter provided instructions for how a library might change from one expansion to another as it grows.

The first foot-sensor-activated automatic door was made in China during the reign of Emperor Yang of Sui ( r. 604 – 618 ), who had one installed for his royal library.

* Oracle Corporation claimed the first Exabyte tape library with the SL8500 and the T10000C tape drive in January 2011.

This gave rise to the first rumour of a New Zealand " library ban " on Blyton's books, a recurrent press canard.

Godzilla 1985 has been released on home video several times in the U. S. The first release was by New World in the mid 80's, another by Starmaker video ( who had acquired some of New World's library ) in the 1992, and again by Anchor Bay in 1997 All home video releases include the Bambi Meets Godzilla animated short with the exception of the Starmaker release.

Located in the center of campus, the $ 30 million, building was built as the first of its kind building on any American campus, acting both as a library and a student union.

With its hierarchical structure, Gopher provided a useful platform for the first large-scale electronic library connections.

The first such library was freeglut, which aims to be a reasonably close reproduction, though introducing a small number of new functions to deal with GLUT's limitations.

The resultant product was backward compatible, a first for a handheld system, and leveraged the large library of games and great installed base of the predecessor system.

In its first year, Mattel sold 175, 000 Intellivision consoles, and the library grew to 35 games.

In 1870 Charles Francis built the first memorial presidential library in the United States, to honor his father.

The two men became personally acquainted, and it was in Savigny's well-stocked library that Grimm first turned over the leaves of Bodmer's edition of the Old German minnesingers and other early texts, and felt an eager desire to penetrate further into the obscurities and half-revealed mysteries of their language.

The first known library of its kind to gather a serious collection of books from beyond its country's borders, the Library at Alexandria was charged with collecting all the world's knowledge.

* Callimachus, ( early 3rd century BC ), the first bibliographer and developer of the Pinakes, popularly considered to be the first library catalog.

The first library classification system was set up during the Han Dynasty.

The first textbook on library science was published 1808 by Martin Schrettinger.