Science



The first and only supersonic airliner
Concorde, twice the speed of sound, about 2, 170 kph (1969)

The first mechanical computer was conceived by
Charles Babbage (1835)

First person ever to transmit speech from one point of another by electrical means
Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish bacteriologist (1876)

First antibiotic drug
Penicillin, discovered by Alexander Fleming, Scottish bacteriologist (1928)

First algorithm written for a computer
Ada Byron’s (Ada Lovelace) notes on the analytical engine of Charles Babbage. She is regarded as the first computer programmer (1842)

First compact disc (CD)
Jointly developed by two companies, Sony and Philips (1978)

First sound recording
Thomas Alva Edison’s phonograph was the first instrument used for recording sound (1877)

First Atom Bomb
“Little Boy” dropped over Hiroshima by the US during the second world war (1945)

First submatine
Built by Cornelius Drebbel, Dutch inventor and scientist (1620)