We note that, first, America has already made great contributions in the past two years to the world's fund of knowledge of astrophysics and space science.

This basic principle, the first in a richly knotted bundle, was conveyed to me by Dr. Henry Lee Smith, Jr., at the University of Buffalo, where he heads the world's first department of anthropology and linguistics.

It has a hull patterned on that of the United States navy's Nautilus, the world's first atomic submarine.

The Greek alphabet thus became the world's first " true " alphabet.

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

* 1939 – First flight of the turbojet-powered Heinkel He 178, the world's first jet aircraft.

On July 23, 1894, the Parisian magazine Le Petit Journal organized what is considered to be the world's first motoring competition from Paris to Rouen.

* 1870 – Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London, England, United Kingdom.

* 1980 – Vigdís Finnbogadóttir is elected President of Iceland and becomes the world's first democratically elected female head of state

* 1946 – Santa Claus Land, the world's first themed amusement park, opens in Santa Claus, Indiana, United States.

* 1977 – Tandy Corporation announces the TRS-80, one of the world's first mass-produced personal computers.

* 1956 –, the world's first successful container ship, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas.

* 1981 – Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center performs the world's first human open fetal surgery.

The demand for ormers is such that they led to the world's first underwater arrest, when Mr. Kempthorne-Leigh of Guernsey was arrested by a police officer in full diving gear when illegally diving for ormers.

Indeed most biblical scholarship is in agreement that Judeo-Greco-Roman thought in the 1st century was opposite of the Western world's " individual first " mantra – it was very collectivist or communitarian in nature.

* 1946 – First flight of the Convair B-36, the world's first mass-produced nuclear weapon delivery vehicle.

* 1960 – The United States launches Transit 1-B, the world's first satellite navigation system.

* 2001 – Millionaire Dennis Tito becomes the world's first space tourist.

Cuba and Puerto Rico, reached tremendous levels of development and wealth, to the point that Spain's First Train was between Havana and Camaguey, and the world's first telegraph was in Puerto Rico, as Samuel Morse lived there with his daughter, married to a Puerto Rican businessman.

* Manville B. and Josiah Ober 2003, A company of citizens: what the world's first democracy teaches leaders about creating great organizations.

* 1914 – Mexican Revolution: One of the world's first naval / air skirmishes takes place off the coast of western Mexico.

* 1869 – The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world's first rack railway.

* 1885 – Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen

" When I woke up just after dawn on September 28, 1928, I certainly didn't plan to revolutionise all medicine by discovering the world's first antibiotic, or bacteria killer ," Fleming would later say, " But I suppose that was exactly what I did.

The world's first computer to play music was CSIRAC which was designed and built by Trevor Pearcey and Maston Beard.

The world's first digital computer music was generated in Australia by programmer Geoff Hill on the CSIRAC computer which was designed and built by Trevor Pearcey and Maston Beard, although it was only used to play standard tunes of the day.

Digital Ocean, Inc. an OEM licensee of the Apple Newton, offered the Seahorse product, which integrated the Newton handheld computer, an AMPS / CDPD handset / modem along with a web browser in 1996, winning the CTIA's hardware product of the year award as a smartphone, arguably the world's first.

Commodore developed and marketed the world's best-selling desktop computer, the Commodore 64 ( 1982 ).

This acquisition made Compaq, at the time, the world's second largest computer maker in the world in terms of revenue behind I. B. M.

* 1992 – A test engineer for Sema Group uses a personal computer to send the world's first text message via the Vodafone network to the phone of a colleague.

In 1941 Konrad Zuse presented the Z3, the world's first fully functional and programmable computer using electromechanical parts.

In 1943 Tommy Flowers designed and built the Colossus, the world's first fully functional, electronic, digital and programmable computer.

The Centre's computer system contains the world's largest archive of numerical weather prediction data.

The Z3 thus became the world's first functional program-controlled, all-purpose, digital computer.

In 1939, John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford E. Berry of Iowa State University developed the Atanasoff – Berry Computer ( ABC ), The Atanasoff-Berry Computer was the world's first electronic digital computer.

The Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine, nicknamed Baby, was the world's first stored-program computer.

The Mark 1 in turn quickly became the prototype for the Ferranti Mark 1, the world's first commercially available general-purpose computer.

A senior surgeon in the war, Billings built two of the world's most important libraries, Library of the Surgeon General's Office ( now the National Library of Medicine and the New York Public Library ; he also figured out how to mechanically analyze data by turning it into numbers and punching onto the computer punch card as developed by his student Herman Hollerith.

His greatest achievement was the world's first functional program-controlled Turing-complete computer, the Z3, which became operational in May 1941.

He founded one of the earliest computer businesses in 1941, producing the Z4, which became the world's first commercial computer.

* A computer called LEO: Lyons Teashops and the world's first office computer A standard work on the development of LEO

* 1941 – Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin.

Newman lost no time in establishing the renowned Royal Society Computing Machine Laboratory at the University and recruited the engineers Frederic Calland Williams and Thomas Kilburn where they built the world's first electronic stored-program digital computer based on Turing's ideas.

In September 2012 Australian researchers say the world's first quantum computer is just 5 to 10 years away, after announcing a global breakthrough that makes manufacture of its memory building blocks possible.

RISC architecture are now used across a wide range of platforms, from cellular telephones and tablet computers to some of the world's fastest supercomputers such as the K computer, the fastest on the TOP500 list in 2011.