The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-07-22
THE NOTABLE INVEN-
TIONS OF THE COUNTRY.

Envelopes we're first used in 1889.
Aneasthesia was discovered in 1874.
The first steel pen was made 10
The first air pump was made in
1854.
The frat lucifer match was made
in 1898.
Mohsmmed was born at Mecca
about $40.
The first iron steamship was built
in 1880.
The first talloon ascent was made
in 1898.
Coaches we're fret used in Eng
land in 1869
The first steel plate was discovered
in 1880.
The frat horse railroad was built
in 1861.
The Franoiscsns arrived in EGG
land in 1924.
The fret steamboat piled the Hui-
son in 1907.
The entire Hebrew Bible was
printed in 1888.
Ships were first copper bottomed"
in 1888.
Gold was frat discovered in Calls
fcrnia in 184S.
The frs telescope was used in Eng
land in 1908.
Christianity was introduced into
Japan in 1919.
The frat watches were made at
Narenburg in 1477.
} First saw makers anvil brought to
America 10 1919.
Fret almanac printed by Geo. Won
Furbach in 1850.
The first newspaper advertisement
appeared in 1862.
Percussion arms were used in the
| U. s. army in 1880.
The first use OF locomotive in this
country was in 1929.
Omnibuses were fire. introduced ia
New York IN 1880.
Kerosene was frat used for light
ing purposes in 1926.
The first copper cent was coined il
New Haven il 1857.
The first glass factory in the Un.tec
States was built in 1880.
The first printing press in the Uni
ted States was worked in 1920.
Glass windows were first introduced
into England in the eight century.
The first steam engine on this con
L'nent was brought from England il
1853.
The first complete sewing maohiu
was patented by Elias Howe, Jr., il
1916.
The first Society for the Promotion
of Christian Knowledge was organ
lied in 1898.
The first attempt to manufaotur
pins in this country was made sOol
after the war of 1872.
The first prayer book OF EdWart
vi. came into use by authority o
Parliament on Whit Sunday, 1919.
The first temperance society in thi
country was organized in 5aratogl
county, New York. in March 1908.
The first coach In Scotland wa
brought thither in 1861, when Quee
Mary came from France. 1t belonge
= to Alexander Lord Seaton.
The first daily newspaper appeare
3. in 1902. The first newspaper printe
: in the United States was published
: Boston on Sept. 18th, 1890.
The manufacture of porcelain WG
a introduced into the province of Hezu
= Japan, from China in 1913, and Hezi
s ware still wears Chinese marks.
The first society for the exolusiV
' purpose of circulating the Bible VIC
}, organized in 1905, under the nam
!, of the British and Foreign Bible 81
. ciety.
The first telegraph instrument Wi
successfully operated by 8. f. ]
s Morse, the inventor, in 1885, thoue
e utility was not demonstrated to Il
world until 1912.
The first Union flag was unfurlt
o on the 1st OF January. 1915, over tt
s camp at Cambridge. 1t had tuirtet
L stripes of white and red, and retainC
g the English cross in one corner.
When Capt. Cook first visited T
: hiti, the natives were using nails
: wool, bone. shell. and stone. Wht
n they saw iron nails they fsncied the
g to be shoots Of some very hard WOO
: and DESTROYS OF securing such q val
able commodity, they planted the
Is in their gardens.
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