Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1880-01-31
First Things.

A VERY INTERESTING CHAPTER
ON EARLY INVENTIONS AND
WHEN THEY WERE INTRODUCE
ED.
Envelopes were first used In
1899.
The first steel pen was made in
1880.
The first air pump was made In
1864.
Anm shesia was discovered In
1884.
The first luclfer match was made
in 1929.
The first balloon ascent was
made in 1883.
The first iron steamship was
built In 1880.
Ships were first bu!ls cooper
bcttomedn In 1888
Coaches were first used In Eng
land in 1860.
The first horse railroad was built
In 1867.
The entire Hebrew Bible was
printed In 1883.
Gold was first discovered in CAL
ifornia In 1913.
The first steamer piled the Hud-
son In 1907.
The first watches were made at
Nuremburg In 1477.
Omnibuses were introduced in
New York in 1880.
The first newspaper advertise
ment aDpearpd In If,52
The first copper cent was coined
In New Haven in 1887.
Kerosene was used for lighting
purposes In 1926.
The first telescope was probably
used In England In 1908.
The first saw-maker's anvil was
brought to America la 1919.
The first use Of a locomotive in
this county was In 1929.
T The first almanac was printed by
George Won Purback, In AGO.
The first chimney was introduce
ed into Rome from Padua in 1929.
The steam engine on this CONT
nent was brought from England
ia 1853.
Glass Windows were first intro
duced into England in the eighth
century.
The first complete sewing ma
chine was patented by Elias Howe,
jr., In 1916.
Glass was early discovered.
Glass beads were found on num-
mics over 3 900 years ago.
The first algebra originated with
Dlophantus, in either the fourth
or The sixth century.
The first society for the promo
ton OF Christian knowledge was
organized In 1857.
Gas was first used as an illumi-
atlng agent In 1902. Its first use
In New York was In 1927.
The first attempt to manufac-
ture pins In this country was made
soon after the war of 1912.
The first national bank III the
United States was Incorporated by
Congress December 81, 1881.
Organs are said to have been
first introduced into churches by
Pope Vitalianus, about A. ID. 1870.
The first glass factory In United
States OF which we have definite
knowledge was built in 1880.
The first temperance society In
this country was organized In Sar-
atoga county, New York, in March,
1908.
The first compass was used In
France in 1900, though the Chinese
are said to have employed the load
stone earlier.
The first machine for carding,
rolling and spinning cotton made
In the United States, was manu-
featured In 1856.
The first society for the exclu-
sive purpose Of circulating the b.
bile was organized In 1906, under
The name OF "British and foreisn
Bible Society,"
Tho first telegraph instrument
was successfully operated by 8. +.
B. Morse, the inventor, in 1885,
though its utility was not demon
strated to the world until 1874.
The first daily newspaper APP
peared in 1902. The first newspa-
per Published in the United States
was in Boston, September rs, 100.
The first religious newspaper, the
Boston Record. was established In
1915.
The first Union flag was unfuled
On the first of January, 1776, over
the camp at Cambridge. 1t had
thirteen stripes of white and red,
and retained the English cross in
one corner.