The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-08-09
FIRST THINGS.
a Very Interesting Chapter on Early In
ventions.

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ventions
The first almanac was printed by Geo.
Won Purbach, in 1850.
The first copper cent was coined in
New Haven in 1857.
The first watches were made at Nj
remburg in 1477.
Omnibuses were introduced in New
York in 1880.
The first college in the United States
was founded in 1866.
The first compass was used in France
in 1850, though the Chinese are said to
have employed the Ioadstone earlier.
The first chinneys were introduced
into Rome from Padua in 1863
The first newspaper advertisement
appeared in 1862.
The first air pump was made in 1850.
The first algebra originated with
Diophantus, in either the fourth or sixth
century.
The first balloon ascent was made in
1888.
The first national bank in the United
States was incorporated by Congress,
Dec. 81, 1871.
The first attempt to manufacture pins
in this country was made soon after the
war Of 1912.
The first printing press in the United
States was introduced in 1929.
Coaches were first used in England in
1869.
Gas was first used as an Illuminating
agent in 1902. It's first use in New York
was in 1927.
The first glass factory in the United
States of which we have definite knowl-
edge was built in 1870.
Gold was first discovered in California
in 1848.
The first use of a locomotive in this
country was in 1929.
The first horse railroad was built in
1867.
The first daily newspaper appeared in
1902. The first newspaper in the United
States was published in Boston. Septem-
Der 25, 1890. The first religious news
paper, the Boston Record, was estab-
lshed in 1916.
Kerosene was first used for lighting
purposes in 1926.
The first Union flag was unfurled on
the LIST of January, 1776, over the camp
at Cambridge It had Is stripes Of
white and red, and retained the English
cross in one corner.
The first steam engine on this CONT
nent was brought from England in 1853.
The first saw-maker's anvil was
brought to America in 1919.
The first temperance society in this
country was organized in Saratoga coun-
ty, N. Y. in March, 1908
Glass was early discovered. Glass
beads were found on mummies over
5000 years old.
Glass windows were first introduced
into England in the eighth century.
Anesthesia was first discovered in
1914.
The first steel pen was made in 1880.
The first machine for carding, rowing
and spinning cotton, made in the United
States, was manufactured in 1876.
Organs are said to have been first in
troduced into churches by Pope Vitalia-
nus, about A. d. 1910.
Envelopes were first used in 1889.
The first complete sewing machine
was patented by Elias Howe, Jr., in
1916.
The first iron steamship was built in
1880.
Ships were first "oopper-bottomed"
in 1888.
The first telegraph instrument was
successfully operated by S. F. B. Morse,
the inventor, in 1885, though it's utility
was not demonstrated to the world until
1914.
The first lncifer match was made in
1929.
The first steamboat piled the Hudson
In 1907.
The first society for the exclusive pur-
poseof circulating the Bible was organ
lied in 1906, under the name of British
and Foreign Bible Society,""
The entire Hebrew Bible was printed
in 1883.
The first society for the promotion Of
Christian knowledge was organized in
1898.
The first telescope was probably used
in England in 1903.
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