300 Firsts

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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)

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Space


First artificial satellite launched into orbit
Sputnik 1, USSR (1957)

First artificial satellite by the United States
Explorer 1 (195

First manned space vehicle
Vostok 1, USSR (1961)

First international co-operative space flight
A US Apollo spacecraft docks with a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft while in earth orbit. The two flight crews visited each other’s spacecraft and had meals together (1975)

First US astronaut to orbit earth
John Glenn (1962)

First manned private spaceflight
‘Space Ship One’ piloted by Mike Melvill (2004)

First fully controlled soft landing on moon
Surveyor 1 (1966)

First spacecraft to orbit Saturn
Cassini Huygens (2004)
First living creature to orbit the earth
Laika, the dog, aboard the Soviet satellite, Sputnil 2. Laika was asphysiated after a week in orbit. Her cabin burned up on re-entry to the earth’s atmosphere (1957)

First man in space
Yuri Gagarin of USSR. He is the first human to orbit Earth (1961)

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Space



First Indian in space
Rakesh Sharma aboard Salyut 7 (1984)

First American in space
Alan B Shepherd (1961)

First human to walk in the Moon
Neil Armstrong, Apollo 11 (1969)

First human to walk in space
Alexei Arkhovich lenov (1965)

First American to walk in space
Edward Higgins White, Jr. (1965)

First commercial communications satellite
Early Bird, built for the communications satellite corporation (COMSAT) (1965)

First satellite designed to transmit television and high speed data communications
Telstar(1962)

First communications satellite in geosynchronous orbit
Syncom (1963)

First woman in space
Velentina Tereshkova, Russian cosmonaut, aboard Vostok – 6 (1963)

American woman in space
Dr. Sally K. Ride, space shuttle challenger (1983)

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