12 memorable and influential firsts in the history of humanity

3/16/2018

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History Story: 12 memorable and influential firsts in the history of humanity

Some historical events happen to change the world we live in once and forever. Can you believe that the first selfie was taken more than a century ago? Take a look at this list to find out more about famous first times in history.

#1 The first advertisement on TV (Bulova, 1941)

#2 The first photograph taken underwater (Louis Boutan, 1899)

#3 Apple's first product, a desktop computer Apple I (1976)

#4 The first color photograph ever taken (1861)

Can you recognize the item in the picture?

#5 The first selfie in history taken in 1839

#6 The first airplane flight which lasted 12 seconds, covering 120 feet (1903)

#7 The first photograph ever taken (circa 1826)

#8 The first animated image made of a sequence of photographs (1878)

#9 Junko Tabei, the first woman to climb Mount Everest on 16 May, 1975

#10 Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in history to fly to space (Vostok 6 mission, 1963)

#11 The first artificial heart (2015)

#12 The first spacecraft to successfully fly to Mars and send the pictures of the planet (Mariner 4, 1964)

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39 Comments

Joyce Zimmerschied

Why does it say the first artificial heart dates from 2015? The first successfully-implanted one (according to Wikipedia) was the Jarvik-7, in 1982.

Mark Ann Dubaz

Thank God for innovative people that have the brains and or will to build or invent the 1st.

Linda Spreng

The underwater photo is surreal !! The artificial heart: What about Jarvik's work in the 1980s? Thought that was the first.

Betty Wiendels

Jim Evans, Maybe a ribbon 🎀

Caroline Weis

How about Dr Michael DeBakey who developed a roller pump to transfuse blood from one person to another which later became a compomponet of the heart-lung machine. He later developed a way to bypass clogged artories near the heart.

David Ching

The first artificial heart was made by the Soviet scientist Vladimir Demikhov in 1938. It was implanted in a dog. On 2 July 1952, 41-year-old Henry Opitek, suffering from shortness of breath, made medical history at Harper University Hospital[2] at Wayne State University in Michigan with the Dodrill-GMR heart machine. These were primarily used for patients awaiting transplants. On 2 December 1982, William DeVries implanted the Jarvik 7 artificial heart into Barney Clark, a dentist from Seattle who had severe congestive heart failure. Clark lived for 112 days. A few are undergoing tests for approval, but none have been classified as a permanent replacement. Most are only good enough for 1 to 5 years service.