World's First Concept Car: Buick Y-Job; Year: 1938

The Buick Y-Job is considered by most to be the first concept car was designed by the famous General Motors designer Harley Earl in 1938. The car had...

1. power-operated hidden headlamps, 

2."gunsight" hood ornament, 

3. wraparound bumpers,

4. flush door handles, and

5. prefigured styling cues 

World's First Photograph (1826): "View from the Window at Le Gras"

Centuries of advances in chemistry and optics, including the invention of the camera obscure, set the stage for the world’s first photograph. In 1826, French scientist Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, took that photograph, titled View from the Window at Le Gras at his family’s country home. Niépce produced his photo—a view of a courtyard and outbuildings seen from the house’s upstairs window—by exposing a bitumen-coated plate in a camera obscura for several hours on his windowsill.