Lists of British Inventions - Transport - Publishing Firsts

Publishing Firsts

  • The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (1768–81)
  • The first English textbook on surgery(1597)
  • The first modern pharmacopaedia, William Cullen (1776) The book became 'Europe’s principal text on the classification and treatment of disease'

his ideas survive in the terms nervous energy and neuroses (a word that Cullen coined).

  • The first postcards and picture postcards in the UK

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