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- catalog abstract "Firsts and Almost Firsts in Hawai'i, like the subject it celebrates, is itself a first - the first book-length look at how and when a wide range of items made their first appearance in the Islands: from credit cards, mongooses, cockroaches, dumb waiters, slot machines, and drive-ins to aloha shirts, computers, roller skates, parking meters, and shipwrecks. The most important and the most trivial are found in its pages - everyday household objects as well as major. Innovations in medicine, the arts, and government. Many entries will prove surprising to all but the most knowledgeable readers. To satisfy the curious and the skeptical, endnotes and a bibliography listing more than 200 publications are provided, making this work a valuable reference for scholars as well as an entertaining handbook for trivia buffs. The entries, organized by category, are complemented by numerous photographs and drawings, some never before published.".
- catalog alternative "Firsts in Hawai'i".
- catalog contributor b8247537.
- catalog contributor b8247538.
- catalog coverage "Hawaii Miscellanea.".
- catalog created "1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1995.".
- catalog description "Firsts and Almost Firsts in Hawai'i, like the subject it celebrates, is itself a first - the first book-length look at how and when a wide range of items made their first appearance in the Islands: from credit cards, mongooses, cockroaches, dumb waiters, slot machines, and drive-ins to aloha shirts, computers, roller skates, parking meters, and shipwrecks. The most important and the most trivial are found in its pages - everyday household objects as well as major.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
- catalog description "Innovations in medicine, the arts, and government. Many entries will prove surprising to all but the most knowledgeable readers. To satisfy the curious and the skeptical, endnotes and a bibliography listing more than 200 publications are provided, making this work a valuable reference for scholars as well as an entertaining handbook for trivia buffs. The entries, organized by category, are complemented by numerous photographs and drawings, some never before published.".
- catalog extent "xxii, 241 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0824812824 (acid-free paper)".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press,".
- catalog spatial "Hawaii Miscellanea.".
- catalog subject "996.9 20".
- catalog subject "DU623 .S36 1995".
- catalog title "Firsts and almost firsts in Hawai'i / Robert C. Schmitt, Ronn Ronck.".
- catalog title "Firsts in Hawai'i".
- catalog type "Miscellanea. fast".
- catalog type "text".