Definitions for put the cart before the horse. This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word put the cart before the horse. Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: To put things in the wrong order or with the wrong priorities; to put something inconsequential as more important than something more essential.
Dialysis takes the place of kidney function by cleaning a person's blood. The first successful dialysis machine, or âartificial kidney,â was invented in 1945 by Willem Johan Kolff, then a doctoral student at the University of Groningen in Holland. Today, about 450,000 Americans are on dialysis, according to the National Kidney Foundation.
The AE Strowger Dial Candlestick. 11-digit dial telephone, circa 1905. A Kansas City (Kansas) inventor named Almon Strowger invented the first automatic dial telephone system in 1889. This system used rotary relay switches that followed pulses in the central office when a subscriber moved a dial on the telephone. This type of system was called step-by-step or simply step. (See How Phones Work in the Science wing for more about Strowger.) By 1892, the first Strowger Automatic Telephone Exchange was in service in La Porte, Indiana.