Chicken or Egg

Which came first? #1 · Inventions

Chicken or Egg, October 1: The hot-air balloon, The typewriter, Electronic television, Sliced bread, The Sony Walkman

Puzzle #1, Inventions, Thursday, October 1, 2026. Six things, one order. Here is the answer, earliest to latest.

1. 1
   The hot-air balloon1783

   The Montgolfier brothers sent a sheep, a duck and a rooster up first, then people.

2. 2
   The typewriter1868

   Sholes and Glidden's 1868 machine gave us QWERTY. Mark Twain was an early customer.

3. 3
   Electronic television1927

   Philo Farnsworth transmitted the first electronic TV image in San Francisco in 1927. It was a straight line.

4. 4
   Sliced bread1928

   Otto Rohwedder's slicing machine debuted in Chillicothe, Missouri in 1928. Television beat it by a year.

5. 5
   The Sony Walkman1979

   The Walkman launched in Japan in July 1979 and changed where music happened.