Ferdinand Magellan
The first known tessellation was used around 4000 years ago in ancient Sumer. The person's name was not recorded.
He first suggested that the Earth (and the other planets that were then known) rotated around the Sun instead of the other way around.
Although the use of a periscope to look over the heads of a crowd was first known around 1430 the first person to patented it was Morgan Robertson, around 1920.
A person to person is known as the first person. There is first person, second person and third person.
circumnavigation
The sleigh has been around since the times of Old English. The person who first invented the sleigh and the name of the inventor is not known.
circumnavigation
the first person to live on earth was adem and eve
The first person known to have looked at the heaves through a telescope was Galileo.
Bartolomeu Dias sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488, reaching the Indian Ocean from the Atlantic, the first European known to have done so.
The monglifier brothers were the first people to travel around the world in a hot air balloon known as the monglifier balloon