Pennsylvania holds the distinction of
having many “firsts in the nation!”
PENNSYLVANIA FIRSTS
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Advertising Agency
Air mail service
All-motion picture theatre
Aluminum-faced building
Arcade
Automated people mover
Automobile road map
Belt conveyor system
Bible translated in US
Biology offered in college
Bird Sanctuary
Book entered for copyright
Book for the blind
Botany professor
Bottler of mineral water
Cable television system
Carpet mill
Chemistry laboratory
Chemistry professor
Christmas savings club
Circus
Coal burning locomotive
Commercial: - high school - ball bearings - museum - pretzel bakery - radio station
Crematory
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Druggist
Dual elevator in service
Public television station
Electric watch
Electronic computer
Encyclopedia
Fire patrol
Geology book
Glass crystal chandelier
Graduate school for women
High-speed, multi-lane highway
Hospital
Institution of art
Iron casting
Law digest published
Library
Low-rent community
Magazine
Mass transit bus pool
Melon grown
Mint of the US
Model school
Newspaper
Nuclear power plant
Nursing school
Paper mill
Passenger cable car
Patent reissue
Permanent theatre building
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Planned community
Preparation of sodawater
Print patent
Printed ballot for an election
Production of cottonseed oil
Production of expandable Polystyrene
Production of rayon
Public use of Polio vaccine
Radio broadcast
Railroad tunnel
Rolling mill
Round-trip airplane flight
Seed business
Sleeping car for railroad uses
Steamboat
Steel mill with an electric machine
Steel passenger railroad coach
Streetcar
Successful oil well
Sugar beets grown
Symphony orchestra
Television broadcast
Tests with antifreeze
Tunnel for general traffic
University for African-Americans
Use of aluminum walls
Electric turnstile
Water-pumping station
Zoo
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INVENTIONS/PATENTS/DISCOVERIES
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Accordion
Air brakes
Anthracite coal
Apple parer
Automatic Telephone System
Bessemer steel-making process
Bifocals
Big Mac
Carborundom
Cement
Conestoga wagon
Daylight savings time
Dental mallet
Electric meter
Electric motor
Electronic computer
Ferris wheel
Flashcubes
Folding machine
Franklin stove
Horse-powered mower
Lightening rod |
Pencil with attached eraser
Polio vaccine
Printing press in the US
Recumbent chair
Revolving door
Rotary steam engine
Rotary washing machine
Rubber
Sandblasting
Shock absorber
Slicing machine
Snap tops for cans
Soldering gun
Steam shovel
Steamboat
Stereoscope
Street letter box
Textile machinery
Typewriter ribbon
Water softener
Zinc
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MANUFACTURING
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Boiler plates
Folding bed
Hookless fasteners
Jeans
Lager beer
Mustard
Platinum metal
Printer’s ink
Quinine
Root beer
Straw paper
Wallpaper
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