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.

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

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.

Previously, on April 1985, Japanese digital telephone exchange hardware made by Fujitsu was used to experimentally deploy the world's first I interface ISDN.

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.

The world's first MIDI-equipped drum machine and Roland's first to use digital sample playback combined with analog sound synthesis.

In a recent study in Science it was estimated that the world's technological capacity to store information in analog and digital devices grew from less than 3 ( optimally compressed ) exabytes in 1986, to 295 ( optimally compressed ) exabytes in 2007, doubling roughly every 3 years.

In the year 1986, merely 1 % of the world's capacity to store information was in digital format, which grew to 3 % by 1993, 25 % in the year 2000, and exploded to 97 % of the world's storage capacity by 2007.

* Computer Animation Festival: an annual festival for the world's most innovative, accomplished, and amazing digital film and video creators.

The UK is a focal point for many of the world's submarine communications cables, which are now mostly digital optical fibre cables.

Penn's educational innovations include: the nation's first medical school in 1765 ; the first university teaching hospital in 1874 ; the Wharton School, the world's first collegiate school of business, in 1881 ; the first American student union building, Houston Hall, in 1896 ; the country's second school of veterinary medicine ; and the home of ENIAC, the world's first electronic, large-scale, general-purpose digital computer in 1946.

The BBC World Service is the world's largest international broadcaster, broadcasting news, speech and discussions in 27 languages to many parts of the world on analogue and digital shortwave platforms, internet streaming, podcasting, satellite, FM and MW relays.

Leonard Kleinrock conducted early research in queueing theory which would be important in packet switching, and published a book in the related field of digital message switching ( without the packets ) in 1961 ; he also later played a leading role in building and management of the world's first packet-switched network, the ARPANET.

ITV Digital was a British digital terrestrial television broadcaster, which launched a pay-TV service on the world's first digital terrestrial television network.

BINAC was their first product, the first stored-program computer in the US, and the world's first commercial digital computer.

On 9 May 2011 Ruskin Gallery unveiled its new digital gallery, which displays art in a digital format on High Definition screens, including the world's first Panasonic 103 " 3D Full HD plasma screen specially imported from Japan.

*: The world's second-largest trade-book publisher for the general public and educational markets ( first in France and the United Kingdom, second in Spain and fifth in the United States ), Lagardère Publishing is a federation of publishing houses united by common management rules and a concerted effort to expand digital activities.

** * Louisiana Immersive Technologies Enterprise ( LITE )-70, 000-square-foot facility at the Research Park ; owns the world's first six-sided, digital virtual reality cube as well as the world's largest digital 3-D auditorium.