The American
Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) was formed in 1866.
The 1st performance of Handel's "Messiah" was on April 13, 1742 at the New Music
rooms in Fishable St., Dublin. Because of the demand for
space, the men were asked not to wear their swords and
the ladies not to wear hoped skirts.
The first toothbrush with bristles
was developed in China in 1498. Bristles were taken from
hogs at first, later from horses. The nylon bristles were
developed in 1938 by DuPont.
In the 1800s, the Chinese believed
that strangling a man was less sever a punishment than
beheading because the body would not be permanently disfigured.
The first reference to a monetary
prize in a horse race was offered by Richard I in 1195.
The very first bomb dropped
by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the
only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
Police dogs were first used
in 1816 in Scotland.
Laika the dog was the first
living thing which was sent to space.
It was discovered on a space
mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its
stomach first, so that the stomach is dangling out of
it's mouth. Then the frog uses its' forearms to dig out
all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach
back down again.
Barbara Bush's book about her
English Springer spaniel, Millie's book, was on the bestseller
list for 29 weeks. Millie was the most popular "First
Dog" in history.
The first seeing-eye dog was
presented to a blind person on April 25, 1938.
Felix the Cat is the first
cartoon character to ever have been made into a balloon
for a parade.
Dr. Guillotin merely proposed
the machine that bears his name (which was rejected by
the crown) and he never made a working model. The first
working model was made by his assistant years later. When
the machine attained infamy in the French Revolution,
Dr.Guillotin protested its use and went to his grave claiming
that the machine was unjustly named after him.
Chinese made the first wheelbarrow.
The Sumerians invented writing.
The Sumerians,
who lived in the Middle East, invented the wheel in about
3450 BC.
It was the Romans who made
the first popsicle. They took some ice and added flavors
to it and then licked it.
Thomas Crapper developed the
flush toilet. In 1884, he simulated the materials a toilet
would normally handle, to create "a super-flush which
had completely cleared away: 10 apples, 1 flat sponge,
3 air vessels, Plumbers Smudge coated over the pan, 4
pieces of paper adhering closely to the soiled surface."
A fantastic feat of flushing!
The Industrial Revolution in
Europe first saw the beginning of air pollution, which
gradually became a major global problem.
The first steam powered train
was invented by Robert Stephenson. It was called the Rocket.
The first pick-up truck in
the world was made by Gottlieb Daimler in 1886. Gottlieb
produced the world's first motorcycle in 1885.
The first car with four wheels
was made in France in 1901 by Panhard et LeVassor.
pin bowling was made up in
Germany during the Medieval ages Karl Benz invented the
first gas powered car. The car had only three wheels.
The first toy balloon, made
of vulcanized rubber, was thought of by someone in the J.G.Ingram company in London, England in 1847.
The first metal bicycle was
called the High-Wheel or Penny Farthing. People had a
hard time keeping their balance on this type of bicycle.
The first bicycle that was
made in 1817 by Baron von Drais didn't have any pedals.
The Wright Brothers invented
one of the first airplanes. It was called the Kitty Hawk.
The first black surgeon to
do open heart surgery was Dr. Daniel Hale Williams. In
1893, he saved a man who was knifed by opening his chest
and sewing together the wound, which was only a fraction
of an inch from his heart. He was one of the first to
do this. He accomplished this without any modern medical
devices, such as x-rays.
The first animal sent up to
outer space was a dog.
JOSEPH RECHENDORFER was the first person to think of putting a piece of rubber
onto the top of a pencil which makes it real easy to rub
out mistakes.
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