1st Person Point of View

First-person accounts of people who were first to do it

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First-Person Account — 1967

The First Man Cryogenically Preserved

James Bedford

A first-person account detailing the experience of being the first man to undergo cryogenic preservation.

Scientific Letter — 1887

A Letter Concerning Venom

Henry Sewall — Denver, Colorado

He gave them rattlesnake venom in doses too small to kill. Then larger. Then larger still. One pigeon survived a dose that would have stopped a man's heart. He wrote it down and sent the letter. The Nobel went to someone else fourteen years later.

Photographic Pursuit Record — 1884

The First Tempest Photographer

Caleb Sloane — Westphalia, Kansas

He predicted the Garnett tornado four days in advance, followed it east from Pueblo by rail, and photographed it minutes before the man history remembers. His second plate was returned without inquiry. His third plate showed seven figures who should not have been there.

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Laboratory Notes — 1899

The Night the Earth Answered

Nikola Tesla

He lit two hundred lamps from twenty-five miles away with no wire between them and the source. The science worked. The infrastructure was never built.

Mine Record — 1879

Still Tapping

Owen Treloar — St. Piran Mine, Silver Cliff

The rescue was called on October 17th. The tapping resumed at 9:41 that morning. The shaft was sealed on October 18th. When it was reopened in 1884, the fragments found with him indicated he had survived at least six days.