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Liverpool firsts
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The English city of Liverpool and its environs boasts a remarkable list of pioneering achievements in many fields of endeavour. World Firsts observation of the transit of Venus, 1639 sailors' charity, 1679 wet dock, 1715 transfer printing of pottery, 1755 lifeboat station, 1776 public use of ether as an anaesthetic, 1776 American consul, James Maury, 1790 Athenaeum Club, 1797 underwriters association, 1803 cast-iron church, 1814 fare-paying passenger steam railway, 1830 Railway station and tunnels, 1830 Railway fatality, 1830 travelling post-office, 1838 transatlantic passenger service, 1840 photographic printing and developing service, 1840 Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 1841 Public baths and wash-houses, 1842 Medical Officer for Health, 1847 non-combustible warehouse, 1848 modern air-conditioning system, 1848 Rugby club, 1857 steel ship, 1858 iron-framed curtain-walled building, 1864 transatlantic telegraph cable, 1886 purpose-built football ground, 1892 overhead electric railway, 1893 automatic railway signalling, 1893 long-distance radio transmission, 1894 School of Architecture, 1895 cinematographic tracking shot, 1896 School of Tropical Medicine, 1898 performance of Elgar's Pomp & Circumstance No.1, 1901 Chair of Biochemistry, 1902 pre-cast concrete building, 1905 ring road, 1905 large re-inforced concrete building, 1911 interplanetery society, 1933 performance of Bartok's Piano Concerto, 1944 performance of Britten's Young Persons Guide to the Orchestra, 1946 radar lighthouse, 1947 banking computer, 1960 dedicated cancer research centre, 1997 zoonosis research centre, 2006 European Firsts ferry service, 12th Century circulating library, 1757 purpose-built prison, 1786 Woolworth's store, 1909 British Firsts street cleaners, 1749 School for the Blind, 1791 corn exchange, 1808 School for the Deaf, 1825 Borough engineer, 1840 office block, 1841 fire salvage corps, 1842 girls high school, 1844 Trades Council, 1848 Chess club, 1857 tramway, 1857 purpose-built public library, 1860 Cycling club, 1867 steamroller, 1867 municipal trams, 1868 council house, 1869 Institute of Chartered Accountants, 1870 disarmament campaign, 1875 public Art Gallery, 1877 electrically-lit library, 1879 Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, 1883 ambulance, 1886 mosque, 1889 domestic gas meters, 1889 X-ray, 1896 railway station escalator, 1901 anti-tubercular campaign, 1901 motorised fire-engine, 1902 Nobel prize (Ross), 1902 electric railway, 1903 Chair of Physical Chemistry, 1903 School of Veterinary Science, 1904 professorship of Russian, 1908 Chair of Civic Design, 1909 automatic telephone exchange, 1912 School of Oceanography, 1919 slab-reinforced concrete building, 1919 age concern society, 1922 hyperbolic cooling towers, 1924 juvenile court, 1925 arts centre, 1927 veterinary hospital, 1929 purpose-built boxing stadium, 1932 police two-way radio communication, 1934 marriage guidance service, 1936 citizens' advice bureau, 1938 chinese newspaper, 1944 legal aid service, 1947? scheduled passenger helicopter service, 1950 public planetarium, 1970 public art conservation centre, 1997 Provincial Firsts (outside London) Children's hospital, 1851 Nursing School, 1862 municipal electric lighting, 1879 airport, 1933 passenger air service to Europe, 1934 orchestra to achieve Royal assent, 1957 drive-in bank, 1959 mass x-ray screening, 1959 awarded the prestigious blue plaque, 1998 Largest, Longest, Tallest, etc World Europe The largest Chinese Arch outside of China. Britain The largest clocks in Britain, on the Royal Liver Building longest and highest canal, the Leeds-Liverpool canal largest prison Provincial largest circulation evening newspaper Lasts Confederate navy ship to surrender, CSS Shenandoah, 1865 hanging, 1964 scheduled steam passenger rail service, 1967 provincial clearing bank, Martin's bank, 1972 working Proscenium cinema screen in the world See Also
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