The first credit card, issued in 1950, was Diner’s Club. Frank X. McNamara started the company with 200 card holders.The first CD pressed in the U.S. was Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Born in the USA.’
The first commercial product manufactured in the United States and exported to Europe was a glass bottle made in Jamestown in 1608.
The first company that Bill Gates ever ran created machines that would record the number of cars passing a given point on a street.
The first country to abolish capital punishment was Austria in 1787.
The first fully working parachute was used in 1787 by Jacques Gernerin who dropped 3,000 feet from a balloon. This was long before the airplane was invented.
