Who Made The First Photograph
Man’s desire to able to take photographs goes back hundreds of years. From the eleventh to the sixteenth century, there was a device called “the camera obscura”, …
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Who Made The First Printing Press
The first printing of any kind was done by the Chinese and Japanese in the fifth century. At that time and for hundreds of years afterward, books …
Who Built The First Car
It is difficult to decide exactly who built the first petrol-driven car. Gottlieb Daimler, a German, built his first petrol-driven motor-car in 1887; in the same year, …
Who Started Short Haircuts For Men?
The dressing and decoration of hair by human beings is as old as civilization itself. It is a curious thing to notice how important the style of …
Who Started Vaccination
One day in the year 1768, a young milkmaid attended a Gloucestershire doctor’s surgery for advice. Smallpox, the dreaded scourge of the country at that time, was …
Who Gave The First Wedding Presents
The origin of many customs is hard to trace, but this one has a definite beginning and it reads like a fairy tale! Many years ago, a …
Who Built The First Canals
The Chinese, as early as the fifth century B.C., had begun work on the Grand Canal of China, between Hangchow and Peking, a total length of 1,000 …
Who Was The First Astronaut
The idea of interplanetary travel is very old, but it is only during the past fifty years or so those astronautics have become a really practicable possibility. …
Who Were The First Pirates
Piracy, which is robbery on the high seas, has been going rim for thousands of years. Even ancient Greek and Roman ships were often attacked by pirates in …
Who Made The First Needle
A needle is a very slender tool that is sharp at one end and often has a little hole, or eye, at the other end to pass …
Who Discovered Alaska
When white men first went to Alaska, they found Eskimos, Aleuts, and Indians living there. In fact, Alaska was one of the last large areas of the …
