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Famous First Facts

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All the information on the TITLE Page

• Joseph Nathan Kane
• Famous First Facts * A record of First Happenings, Discoveries, and    
• Inventions in American History
• Fourth Edition Expanded and Revised
• The H.W. Wilson Company   New York   1981

All the information on the VERSO of the title page

• Copyright c 1933, 1935, 1950, 1964, 1981
• By Joseph Nathan Kane
• Copyright renewal c 1961, 1963, 1978
• By Joseph Nathan Kane
• First Edition 1933
  
• Second Edition 1950
• Third Edition 1964
• Fourth Edition 1981, Second Printing 1984, Third Printing 1987
• Copyright c 1981 by Joseph Nathan Kane. All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or copied in any form or by any means, including but not restricted to graphic, electronic, and mechanical-for example, photocopying, recording, taping, or information and retrieval systems-without the express written permission of the publisher, except that a reviewer may quote and a magazine or newspaper may print brief passages as part of a review written specifically for inclusion in that magazine or newspaper.
• Printed in the United States of America
• Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
   Kane, Joseph Nathan, 1899 –
• Famous first facts.
• Includes indexes.
• 1. Encyclopedias and dictionaries.    I. Title
•     AG5.K315        1981        031’.02        81-3395
•     ISBN 0-8242-0661-1                    AACR2
• Composition by Datapage, a division of Western Publishing Company, Inc.

The scope of the resource

• This resource covers more than 9000 inventions, discoveries and things that have happened in American history beginning in the year 1007 and continuing through 1980. This book is well organized with cross-references and four indexes to make this what is considered the most comprehensive and easily used compilation of first facts ever published.

Information about the book as provided in the preface

• Written  by Joseph Nathan Kane in July, 1981, describes all the research he has conducted since he first published the first edition fifty years earlier. He talks about his relentless efforts to seek facts from sources as varied as one-room rural libraries, to the Library of Congress to government departments and even the people themselves. He describes how he has arranged the information alphabetically by cross-referenced subjects. He clearly enjoys his work and takes pride in the details.

Any information about additional materials in the back of the book

• The auxiliary material in the back of the book is quite extensive. In fact it begins on page 718 and continues through to page 1350. The material is the four extensive indexes cross-referencing by years, by days, names, and geographical listings. 

Any pertinent information on when and how to use the title

• This ready reference can be used for research of American history information, whether looking for information on dates, people or places. With all the indexes and cross-referencing it is an easy-to-use resource for fascinating facts on the first time just about anything happened in American history that can be documented. Because the entries are short and to the point, it would be a great source of reading pleasure for that person who is addicted to facts and loves to browse.