Janesville Firsts
- 1885 - First Electric Light Plant - started by Capt.
Pliny Norcross
- 1903 - First Automobile - E. Tracy Brown purchased
a Remington for $1,000
- 1907 - First Automobile Manufacturer - Owen Thomas
Automobile Co.
- 1908 - First Automobile for Deliveries - G. W. Skelly,
owner
- 1909 - First Automobile Dealership - Prielipp Bros.
- carried Buick, Oldsmobile, Oakland, White Steam and White Gasoline
- 1910 - First Truck Manufactured - Monitor Auto Co.
- 1910 - Fire Department's First Motor Car - a Buick
Run-About
- 1912 - First Auto Fatality - Gilbert Rubin (5) killed
by Katherine Jeffris
- 1912 - Fire Department's First Motorized Fire Truck
- 1913 - First X-ray Machine - Mercy Hospital
- 1915 - First Dog Tag License
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