Pennsylvania "Firsts"


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Some of the Pennsylvania "firsts" were:

  • Advertising schools
  • Air mail service
  • All motion picture theater
  • Arcade
  • Artist successful in commercial art
  • Automatic telephone system
  • Automated people mover
  • Automobile road map
  • Belt conveyor system
  • Bible translated to English in America
  • Bird sanctuary
  • Book entered for copyright
  • Book for the blind
  • Botany professor
  • Bottler of mineral water
  • Bubble gum in 1928
  • Building and Loan Association
  • Building erected in the United States for public use
  • Cable television system
  • Carpet mill
  • Chemistry laboratory
  • Christmas savings club
  • Circus
  • College for African-Americans
  • College-level biology course
  • Commercial high school
  • Commercial museum
  • Commercial oil refinery
  • Commercial pretzel bakery
  • Commercial production of zinc
  • Commercial production of aluminum
  • Commercial radio station
  • Commercial use of telephone with push buttons
  • Company-owned service station
  • Conestoga wagon
  • Crematory
  • Daylight Savings Time
  • Druggist
  • Dual elevator in service
  • Electric watch
  • Electronic computer
  • Electric meter
  • Electric motor
  • Encyclopedia
  • English patent granted to a resident of America
  • Fire patrol and fire insurance company
  • Folding bed
  • Full-scale nuclear power plant
  • Geology book
  • Glass crystal chandelier
  • Graduate school for women
  • Groundhog Day
  • Hookless fastening
  • Hospital
  • Institution of art
  • Law digest published
  • Library
  • Licensed hunters
  • Little League baseball
  • Locomotive for railroad use
  • Low-rent community housing project
  • Magazine
  • Mass transit bus pool purchase plan in the U.S.
  • Melon grown in U.S.
  • Mint of the United States
  • Model school
  • Mushrooms
  • Mustard
  • Nursing school
  • Passenger cable car (steepest ever built)
  • Paper mill
  • Patent for a passenger cable car
  • Permanent theatre building
  • Planned community
  • Platinum metal
  • Potato chips
  • Preparation of soda water
  • Pretzels
  • Production of cottonseed oil
  • Production of rayon
  • Professional football game
  • Printed ballot for an election
  • Printer's ink
  • Public use of polio vaccine
  • Quinine
  • Root beer
  • Rough-dry laundry service
  • Round-trip airplane flight
  • Sausage
  • Scrapple
  • Steamboat
  • Steel rolling mill
  • Successful oil well
  • Symphony orchestra
  • Television and radio broadcasts KDKA in Pittsburgh
  • The Pittsburgh Pirates 1st National League team in a World Series
  • Tunnel for general traffic and first railroad tunnel
  • Turnpike
  • Vaseline
  • Wallpaper
  • Water pumping station
  • Zipper
  • Zoo
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