The First of Everything Author:Dennis Sanders The first of everything: A compendium of important, eventful, and just-plain-fun facts about all kinds of firsts... — Who dreamed up the first credit card? When did fast-food restaurants first start springing up on highways? Who master-minded the first bikini? When did cocaine first hit the streets? — Who were the first really rich men in America ... more »and how did they become so fabulously wealthy? Who were the first superstars and million sellers of popular music?
Who climbed to the top of the highest peaks in the world first? Who were the first cabinet members and how much were they paid? When did the first open-heart surgery take place? The first sex-change operation?
What are the greatest, most famous first lines in the history of best sellers? Who was the first film monster? The first movie star jailed on a drug charge? What was the first birth-control device?
The First of Everything--from the inventions of the computer; to the little things that make life worth living, the first Frisbee, and Tupperware; to the first recorded achievements that have changed the way we think and the way we feel, the first self-sustaining nuclear reaction, the first event ever--the cosmic-egg explosion.
Illustrated with fabulous photographs of the things that happened first, here is a compendium for fans of facts lists and trivia--a book for those who love to know The First of Everything.
Dennis Sanders, a native of El Paso Texas, now makes his home in New York City, where he is at work on another book.« less