Pennsylvania Firsts

Pennsylvania was home to the nation's first:

• electric motor

• electronic computer

• automatic telephone system

• belt conveyor system

Pennsylvania was the birthplace of the nation's first:

• Turnpike

• Conestoga wagon

• patent for a passenger cable car

• steamboat

Pennsylvania was home to the nation's first:

• model school
• college for African-Americans
• advertising schools
• graduate school for women

• Pennsylvania hosted the first professional football game.
• Pennsylvania is first in the nation in licensed hunters.
• The Pittsburgh Pirates were the first National League team to play in a World Series.
• The Commonwealth is home to the nation's first circus, all motion picture theater, and arcade.

Pennsylvania was home to the nation's first:

• television and radio broadcasts
• commercial radio station
• cable television system

Pennsylvania was home to the nation's first:

• zoo
• bird sanctuary
• commercial museum
• symphony orchestra
• permanent theatre building

Pennsylvania is first in the production of:

• mushrooms
• potato chips
• scrapple
• sausage
• pretzels

Pennsylvania was home to the nation's first:

• geology book
• college-level biology course
• chemistry laboratory
• botany professor

Pennsylvania was home to the nation's first:

• successful oil well
• carpet mill
• paper mill
• steel rolling mill

Pennsylvania was home to the nation's first:

• full-scale nuclear power plant
• electric meter
• commercial oil refinery

Pennsylvania was home to the nation's first:

• library
• institution of art
• magazine
• encyclopedia

Pennsylvania was home to the nation's first:

• hospital
• nursing school
• use of the polio vaccine
• druggist