15 World Firsts Invention and Discoveries

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1. World's First Digital Camera (1975): Works Kodak engineer Steve Sasson

In December 1975, the Kodak engineer Steve Sasson create something that will revolutionize photography: the world's first digital camera. That is about the size of a toaster, and black and white images captured at a resolution of 100 × 100 - or 0.01 megapixels in marketing terminology. The images were stored on cassette tape, taking 23 seconds to write. The camera uses an ADC from Motorola, Kodak film from the camera lens, and a CCD chip from Fairchild Semiconductor - the same technology with a digital camera that is still used today. To playback images, a special computer and a tape reader (pictured below) was built, the output of the grainy images on a standard TV. It took over 23 seconds to read each image from the tape.

2. World's First Motel (1925): Motel Inn

Motel Inn in San Luis Obispo, California, is the world's first motel. Built in 1925 by LA architect Arthur Heineman, who coined the term motel meaning "motor hotel." Motel Inn was originally called the Milestone Mo-Tel. the prise was $ 1.25. Heineman not afford the cost of trademark registration, so that competitors can use the word "motel." The motel is still operating today.

3. World's First coverAlbum (1938): Smash Song Hits by Rodgers and Hart

Before Alex Steinweiss (23th), designed the cover, the album was created in 1938 for Columbia Records, sold in plain brown paper wrapper. Album "Smash Song Hits by Rodgers and Hart" is the first album cover in the world.

4. World's First Novel (1007): Tale of Genji

In 1007, a Japanese court lady put the finishing touches on what is considered the world's first novel. Spanning 75 years, more than 350 characters, and filled with romantic poems, which tells of an emperor's son, his search for love, and many women are eligible along the road. Written by Murasaki Shikibu Japanese nobility.

5.Web Server and Web Site World's First (1990): NeXT computer at CERN

Info.cern.ch is the world's first address as the web site and web server, running on a NeXT computer at CERN. Web page address in the first air-http://info. cern.ch / hypertex t / WWW / TheProject. html, created by Tim Berners-Lee.

6. World's First Motorcycle (1885): Daimler's "riding car"

First Motorcycle was designed and built by German inventors Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach in Bad Cannstatt (Stuttgart) in 1885. Is basically a motorcycle, although the inventors called their invention the Reitwagen ("riding car"). It is also the first vehicle to be powered oil.

7. X-rays World's First (1895): his wife's hand Rontgen

In 1895 Wilhelm Conrad Rntgen, Wurburg University physics professor in Germany, is conducting experiments with electrical discharges in evacuated glass tubes. End of 1895, Wilhelm Rntgen alone at night trial run, this time in the dark and see the light produced in the wall, which he knew was not caused by fluorescent light. He named, rays 'X' or if you prefer; X-ray. After several months of playing with this discovery, he saw that the place of objects in the path of light can produce shadows and creates pictures on the wall. Soon after he used a plate and photographed his wife, Frau Rntgen, putting his hand in the path of X-rays, and created the first X-ray image in the world. In 1901 Wilhelm Rntgen awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for this discovery.

8.Mouse World's First Computer (1964): by Douglas Engelbart

The world's first computer mouse was made by Douglas Engelbart in 1964, consists of two gears that are positioned perpendicular to each other - allowing movement on one axis. Ergonomic shape, great button placement - and it's made of wood.

9. Buildings sky scraper World's First (1885): Home Insurance Building in Chicago

Regarded as the world's first skyscraper because of its unique architectural buildings and a unique bearing a heavy frame, this building was built in 1885 in Chicago, Illinois and demolished in 1931 to build the Field Building (now the LaSalle National Bank Building). It was the first building using structural steel in the frame, but most of the structure consists of cast and wrought iron.

10. World's First Concept Car (1938): Buick Y-Job

Designed in 1938 by renowned designer Harley Earl of General Motors, Buick Y-Job is considered by most to be the first concept car.

11. World's First MP3 Player (1998): MPMan 32MB

Released in 1998, Eiger Labs MPMan is the world's first MP3 player, with 32MB of internal memory - expandable to 64MB. Available in models of F10 or F20, the latter with SmartMedia compatibility, this player for $ 69 + shipping. The size is 91 x 70 x 16.5 mm.

12. Crosswords World's First (1913): by Arthur Wynne

In 1913, Arthur Wynne had the task of designing the weekly puzzle page for Fun, eight-page comic section of the New York World, a major newspaper of the time. When he created what is called the Word-Cross for the Christmas edition, published on 21 December, he did not know that he will start a new craze around the world.

13.Microprocessor World's First (1971): Intel 4004

In November 1971, a company called Intel introduced the first single chip microprocessor, Intel 4004 (U.S. Patent # 3,821,715), invented by Intel engineers Federico Faggin, Ted Hoff and Stan Mazor. After the invention of integrated circuits that later revolutionized computer design. Intel 4004 integrated circuit made one step further by putting all the parts that make the computer think (ie central processing unit, memory, input and output controls) on a single tiny chip.

14. World's First Magazine (1731): The Gentleman's Magazine

The Gentleman's Magazine, first published in 1731, in London, is considered to have become the first magazine. Edward Cave, who edited The Gentleman's Magazine under the pen name "Sylvanus Urban", was the first to use the term "magazine", on the analogy of a military warehouse from a variety of materials, which originates from the Arabic makazin "warehouse". And ceased publication in September, 1907.

15. First Photos (1826): "View from the Window at Le Gras"