Category: General Knowledge
Who compiled the first English Dictionary? The first ENGLISH DICTIONARY was A Table Alphabetical!, containing and teaching the true writing and understanding of hard usual! English words compiled by …
Who wrote and published the first detective story? The first DETECTIVE STORY was Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”, published in Graham’s Magazine, Philadelphia in April …
Who was the first Woman Detective Writer? The first WOMAN DETECTIVE WRITER was a Mrs. Fortune, an Australian widow obliged to support herself by the pen, whose volume of …
Who wrote the first Detective Novel? Pie first DETECTIVE NOVEL was Recollections of a Detective Police Officer by ‘Waters’, published by J. & C. Brown in June 1856. The …
Who opened the first Department Store? The first DEPARTMENT STORE was the Marble Dry Goods Palace opened on Broadway by Alexander Turney Stewart in 1848. Stewart had been a …
When was the first set of dentures believed to be used? The first DENTURE the earliest-known set of dentures embodying both upper and lower rows of false teeth was …
When did the Internet “CYBER SPACE” become the ‘World Wide Web’? CYBERSPACE has become a region, by the (beginning of 1995) growing consensus, that could significantly affect the structure …
What was the name of the first Electronic Computer? The first ELECTRONIC COMPUTER was. Colossus I, built at a secret government research establishment at Bletchley Park, Herts, under the …
Who patented the first computer designed for data processing? The first COMPUTER DESIGNED expressly for data processing was patented by Dr Herman Hollerith of New York on 8 January …
For the first time when was computer programmed to make calculations and printout solution to problems? The first COMPUTER programmed, designed to receive instructions from punched cards, make calculations …
