First action movie, fiction film, and American Western - The 1903 film The Great Train Robbery was 10 minutes long and had 14 scenes.
First road map - Roman Emperor Augustus Caesar commissioned the first known road maps to be created, not surprisingly because the Romans were famous for the roads they built. It took nearly twenty years to complete the first map!
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First animal to receive two bionic leg implants - In June 2010 Oscar the cat received his bionic limbs after losing them to a combine harvester.
First automatic weapon - In 1883 Sir Hiram Maxim created the Maxim gun. The world’s first machine gun would go on to revolutionize warfare and was used in both World Wars.
First extraterrestrial tornadoes (dust devils) - So it’s obviously not the first time a tornado touched down on another planet but when the Viking spacecraft recorded dust devils on Mars’s surface in the 1970s it was the first time we had proof!
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First human to be killed by a robot - On January 25 1979 Robert Williams died when he was hit in the head by a mechanical arm at a Ford casting plant.
First national park - Yellowstone in the USA was the first national park on Earth. President Ulysses S Grant declared it a protected area in 1872.
First person to reach the North Pole alone and on foot - Although Sir Wally Herbert of the UK was the first confirmed person to reach the North Pole in 1969, Børge Ousland of Norway walked there by himself in 1994!
First road map - Roman Emperor Augustus Caesar commissioned the first known road maps to be created, not surprisingly because the Romans were famous for the roads they built. It took nearly twenty years to complete the first map!
First skyscraper - The Home Insurance Building was erected in Chicago in 1884 and has been called the “Father of the Modern Skyscraper”. It was 10 stories high.
First solo person to circumnavigate the globe using only human power - Erden Eruc of Turkey walked and rowed right around the world!
First supercomputer - Cray-1, the world’s first supercomputer was installed at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the United States in 1976. It cost $8.8 million.
First video game - Often a source of controversy, if you bypass the whole digital thing, the first time any game was played on a screen was in 1947. Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. and Estle Ray Mann created something called the Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device. It was a missile simulator that used analog circuitry.
First watch - The first officially produced portable/wearable clock was the Nuremberg Egg. It was designed by Peter Hemlein of Germany in 1509.
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