Eudoxus of Cnidus constructed the first Greek theory of planetary motion of which any details are known.
His great-great-grandfather Otis Tufts constructed the first steam-operated printing press in the United States and invented the steam pile driver.
Because he believed that chromatic aberration could never be eliminated from lenses, Newton turned to reflecting telescopes; he constructed the first ever built.
About 50 years later, Charles Fritts constructed the first true solar cells using junctions formed by coating the semiconductor selenium with an ultrathin, nearly transparent layer of gold.
Dunlop's founder, John Boyd Dunlop (1840 1921), who had constructed the first pneumatic (air-filled) tire, received a patent for the tire in 1888.
Graunt also constructed the first life table, a statistical table that uses death rates of a cohort (group) of persons to determine the group's average life expectancy.
They have constructed the first, simple x-ray interferometer.
Furniture makers constructed the first of them on truck frames in the late 1920s.
Slooh's founders constructed the first Slooh Observatory as a prototype in the garage before taking it apart and shipping it to Tenerife, for installation on Mt. Teide.
Yüksel and Paterson (2005) constructed the first BAC library of tetraploid peanut cultivar Florunner with the trait of procumbent growth.
Now materials scientist Sossina Haile and colleagues at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena have constructed the first fuel cell based on a solid acid.
