One such machine was installed behind the Royal Hotel in George Street in Sydney's ice-works – one of the world's earliest commercial refrigeration plants.
They formulated China's first explicit ethical and political theories and advanced the world's earliest form of consequentialism, a remarkably sophisticated version based on a plurality of intrinsic goods taken as constitutive of human welfare.
AS ONE of the Arab world's earliest collapsed states, Lebanon has a lot going for it.
Mr Cordone is not telling the truth.On May 25th, this correspondent visited the partially excavated site of Umma, one of the world's earliest known city states, in the southern province of Dhiqar.
The Corridor is one of the world's earliest retail arcades, designed by architect Henry Goodridge and built in 1825, with a glass roof.
The narrative of Isaac and Rebekah, when eventually they meet and share life, is (at least in parts) one of the world's earliest stories of playful and comforting affection between spouses.
One thing is increasingly clear: they are more obviously the descendants of Japan's original inhabitants, the Jomon, inventors of the world's earliest pottery, than are modern Japanese, who are descended from later settlers from Korea.
The site's jewel, however, is the world's earliest constructed fountain, built using five different coloured stones.
At this very same Poetry Jam showcase was the world's earliest introduction to Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton – that race-bending, genre-flipping, true American story in musical form.
Launched in 1957, the Paragon is the world's earliest production stereo loudspeaker for home use, and also the most expensive speaker at the time.
A Grade II listed building and Scheduled Ancient Monument, the Pont-y-Cafnau is the world's earliest surviving iron railway bridge.
