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 April 1908 he founded Modern Electrics, the world's first magazine about both electronics and radio, called " wireless " at the time.

In 2003, Niue became the world's first " Wi-Fi nation ", in which free wireless Internet access is provided throughout the country by The Internet Users Society-Niue.

On April 1, 1880, Bell's assistant transmitted the world's first wireless telecommunication to him from the roof of the Franklin School to the window of Bell's laboratory, some away.

Conducted from the roof of the Franklin School to Bell's laboratory at 1325 ' L ' Street, this was the world's first wireless telephone communication ( away from their laboratory ), thus making the Photophone the world's earliest known radiophone and wireless telephone systems.

On June 3, 1880, Bell conducted the world's first wireless telephone transmission between two buildings, some 213 meters apart.

The world's first commercial wireless telegraphy link was established by employees of Guglielmo Marconi between East Lighthouse on this island to Kenmara House in Ballycastle on 6 July 1898.

In 1899, Guglielmo Marconi opened the world's first " wireless " factory under the name The Marconi Wireless Telegraph & Signal Company in Hall Street employing around 50 people.

In 1922, the world's first regular wireless broadcasts for entertainment began from the Marconi laboratories at Writtle near Chelmsford – Call sign ' 2MT ' in what was little more than a wooden hut.

While Unisys evetually secured PacBell's residential voice-mail services, Boston Technology became the mainstay of Bell Atlantic's residential voice-mail offering and Comverse Technology enjoyed some success in the European market ; Octel became the world's leading provider of voice-mail platforms for virtually all of the major US wireless carriers ( including the seven RBOCs, AT & T Wireless and McCaw ), Canadian cellular carriers and a large percent of the GSM carriers around the world.

The photophone allowed for the transmission of sound on a beam of light, and on June 3, 1880 Bell and Tainter transmitted the world's first wireless telephone message on their newly invented form of telecommunication.

* 1 April 1880: world's first wireless telephone call on Bell and Tainter's photophone ( distant precursor to fiber-optic communications ) from the Franklin School in Washington, D. C. to the window of Bell's laboratory, 213 meters away.

* 2010: Haier Group debuts “ the world's first ” completely wireless LCD television at CES 2010 based on Prof. Marin Soljacic's follow-up research on the 1894 electrodynamic induction wireless energy transmission method and the Wireless Home Digital Interface ( WHDI ).

) In 2003 and 2004 BD introduced several innovative products: BD FACSAria Cell Sorterthe — first entirely new instrument in the next-generation portfolio of flow cytometers ( 2003 ), BD Accuspray — a nasal drug delivery system for administering vaccines ( 2003 ), BD. id — a patient identification system designed to limit the potential for medical errors in specimen collection ( 2003 ), and the world's first " intelligent " insulin pump and glucose monitoring system, a wireless system consisting of a Medtronic MiniMed Paradigm 512 Insulin Pump and Paradigm Link Blood Glucose Monitor, co-developed with BD.

Juniper made no acquisitions between 2006 and 2009, and resumed technology shopping in December 2010 with the acquisition of Trapeze Networks-the world's largest OEM manufacture of 802. 11 based wireless equipment for 150 million in cash.

* The world's first digital wireless patient monitoring system operating in the WMTS medical frequency band, which the company developed for its client Philips Medical Systems

In 2010, hundreds of wireless LAN access points incorporating the technology were installed in the commercial shopping and entertainment complex, Canal City Hakata, resulting in the successful operation of one of the world's largest indoor wireless multi-hop backhauls.

The US $ 8. 3 billion turnover company runs India's largest GSM-based mobile phone service and world's fifth largest wireless company with over 190 million customers across 19 countries in Asia and Africa.

In June 2000 the C6 officially opened as the world's first fully immersive 6-sided virtual reality facility with all wireless tracking, navigation, and control systems, and the first such system located in the United States.