Book Of Firsts

Did you know that the #Bikini and the #AtomicBomb are linked? Learn more by watching our first #60seconddoc! #NationalBikiniDay #summer #BikiniDay #bikini #Beach #history #film #documentary #coldwar #russia #USA #FourthofJuly2018 #ThursdayThoughts #ThrowbackThursday #vacation

The first #World Series took place in 1903 between the #Boston Americans of the #AL and the @PittsburghPirates of the #NL in a best-of-nine series, with Boston prevailing five games to three, winning the last four. #fallclassic #baseball #october #playball #MLB #Nats #Astros

Happy #NationalCoffeeDay! #coffee #MorningJoe #caffeine

The #first #gum was created by barely literate John Curtis in #BangorME in 1848 on a franklin stove. He sold it for two sticks a penny and made $5k the first year. In 1850 he opened the first gum factory. He died a multi-millionaire.

The story of the first #cocktail might be a #fairytale. Betsy Flannigan served up a drink in #ElmsfordNY in 1776 and decorated it with literal tail feathers, but there’s no record of a miss Flannigan outside of an 1821 spy novel #fakenews?

The first Post-It Notes were launched by @MMM in 1979. Dr. Spencer Sylver accidentally invented the special gum that provides their stickiness in 1970 but they didn’t gain popularity until Jennifer d’Abo, a British entrepreneur made them in the colors pink, blue and yellow!

The first transatlantic airmail was flown by Capt. John Alcock and Lt. Whitten-Brown in a Vickers Vimy from St. John's, Newfoundland to Clifden County Galway, in Ireland on June 14 1919.

The first #screenwriter was NY journalist Roy McCardell, who was hired in 1900 by Henry Marvin to write ten scenarios a week at $15 each. The films only ran 2 minutes so we was able to complete his first week's assignment in a single afternoon! #amwriting @screencrafting

The first #girlscoutcookies originated in 1933 in #Philadelphia. A group of #scouts were baking in a windowed kitchen and as the mounds of #cookies grew onlookers from the street began to inquire if they were for sale. They were now! 3 years later they were sold nationwide.

The first #raincoat was made by Francois Fresnau, chief engineer at Cayenne, French Guiana, who discovered rubber trees growing at Aprouage in 1747 and waterproofed an old overcoat by smearing it with latex.

The first #dishwasher was developed by society hostess Josephine Garis Cochran of Shelbyville, Il and was patented on December 28, 1886. She created it to help with the mess after her dinner parties because the servants smashed so many of her best dishes! #FirstWorldProblem

The #First #bottleofbeer was produced in #Philadelphia in 1735 by Thomas Freame and partners, prior to this all beer was sold in barrels…It was a #paleale #hipstersrejoice #SundayFunday

The first #nightclub #party was held on the top floor of the Loyal Order of Ancient Shepherds in West Yorkshire England on night in 1943. The #DJ and #Promoter was Jimmy Savile who was recently released from war service in the coal mines after injuring his back. #SaturdayNight

The first Church in America was San Miguel de Gualdape, built at the short lived Spanish settlement of the same name on Sapelo Sound, GA in October 1526. #church #sunday #mass #history #DidYouKnow

#slicedbread was invented by jewelry store owner Otto Rohwedder. He began working on a slicer in 1912. It wasn’t until 1928 that he had perfected the process. He opened a shop in Chillicothe, Mo on July 6 which is still celebrated in the small town as Sliced Bread Day. #greatest

The #first #gum was created by barely literate John Curtis in #BangorME in 1848 on a franklin stove. He sold it for two sticks a penny and made $5k the first year. In 1850 he opened the first gum factory. He died a multi-millionaire.

A 1991 #Nokia model #cellphone is the first to have an identifiable musical ring tone. It played a bar of “Gran Vals” by Francisco Tárrega. A quarter-century later, the market for #downloads had rung in at an estimated 4.2 billion worth $6.5 billion … per year! #callmemaybe

The Phantom, a fighter for justice was the first #comic #superhero. Drawn by Ray Moore with captions by Lee Falk, the Phantom debuted in February of 1936, clad, of course, in superhero tights and a mask. Falk wrote the strip until he died in 1999. The #avengers came later.

The first #icecreamsundae originated at the ice cream parlor of Ed Berners in Two Rivers, Wisconsin in 1881 when a customer named George Hallauer asked him to pour #chocolate #syrup usually used for sodas over his ice cream. He might be the #smartest man to ever live!