The Shell Book of Firsts

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Entertaining, informative, invaluable for quick reference - The Shell Book of Firsts is all these. When was the first telegram sent? Where was the toothbrush invented? The ballpoint pen was whose idea ? Ranging from the trivial to the momentous, this book is full of facts that interest and surprise. Few of us would dream, for instance, that the first blood transfusion was conducted in the 17th century or that the first railway dates from as early as the 16th century - or indeed, that at least one New York hotel had television sets in its rooms in 1932 or that it is nearly sixty years since a film star first appeared nude on the screen!
These and hundreds of other well-authenticated 'firsts' are fully recorded in this remarkable book, the result of twelve years of dedicated and unremitting research by the author and a team of collaborators. The book chronicles, of course, such 'famous firsts' as th electric light bulb, the camera and the zip fastener. It alsó records a host of... Tovább

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Entertaining, informative, invaluable for quick reference - The Shell Book of Firsts is all these. When was the first telegram sent? Where was the toothbrush invented? The ballpoint pen was whose idea ? Ranging from the trivial to the momentous, this book is full of facts that interest and surprise. Few of us would dream, for instance, that the first blood transfusion was conducted in the 17th century or that the first railway dates from as early as the 16th century - or indeed, that at least one New York hotel had television sets in its rooms in 1932 or that it is nearly sixty years since a film star first appeared nude on the screen!
These and hundreds of other well-authenticated 'firsts' are fully recorded in this remarkable book, the result of twelve years of dedicated and unremitting research by the author and a team of collaborators. The book chronicles, of course, such 'famous firsts' as th electric light bulb, the camera and the zip fastener. It alsó records a host of devices and events that may have seemed insignificant at the time but are now an accepted part of modern life. When sufficient information is available, both world and British firsts are given.
An important feature of the book is a full Chronology, which places not only the 'firsts' described in the text but alsó many thousands of others in historical perspective. The illustrations - more than 100 of them -provide a fascinating social record of Man's genius for invention and innovation.


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