The Pennsylvania Department
Pittsburgh Firsts


* Pittsburgh Firsts -- By Event
* Pittsburgh Firsts -- By Date
* Pittsburgh World Firsts -- By Event
* Pittsburgh World Firsts -- By Date


For Further Reading

* "Big Mac Turns 25,"

The Tribune-Review, 5 May 1993, B1.

Boyle, P. J.

* "Pittsburgh a City of Firsts;
Many on Display at Museum,"
Pittsburgh Press, 27 August 1976, 20.

Davidson, Jim.

* "Take Ten:
This Legal Numbers Game Started Here,"
The Pittsburgh Press, 8 April 1984, 6.
Numerals on football jerseys, &tc.

* "First Facts,"

Bulletin Index, 9 November 1933.

* 1st in Pittsburgh:

A Chronology of People Solving Problems with Ingenuity and Invention.
[Pittsburgh]: Parker/Hunter Incorporated, n.d.

* "First Things in Pittsburgh

"Backward, Turn Backward, Oh Time in Thy Flight...,"
Greater Pittsburgh, (December 1943).

* "First Things in Pittsburgh,"

Greater Pittsburgh, (January 1944).

* Firsts of the Pittsburgh Area and KDKA Radio 1020

from the All-Night KDKA Radio Undercover Club with Bob Logue
[Pittsburgh]: KDKA Radio, 1991.

Kalina, Mike.

* "A Traveler's List of Firsts,"
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 16 September 1980, 17.
First drive-in service station.

Kane, Joseph Nathan.

* Famous First Facts:
A Record of First Happenings, Discoveries, and Inventions in American History.
New York: H. W. Wilson, 1981

Lingenfelter, Michael.

* "Pittsburgh's Firsts--Almost--A to Z,"
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 8 August 1993, 6-7, 12.

* "Mass Transit: No. 1 Problem and ... Priority,"

News and Previews: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania:
Commerce Comments 3/2 (Mar/Apr 1966): 1.
Skybus.

* "Our First, Biggest, Best and Worst"

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 26 February 1980, 17.

* "Pittsburgh: A City of Firsts,"

The Statement, (October 1976): 1, 7.

* Pittsburgh Firsts and World Firsts in Pittsburgh

[Pittsburgh]: Pennsylvania Division; Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, 1968.

* "Pittsburgh Pride,"

Undercover Club Newsletter, (August 1993): 4.

Stuart, Roger.

* "Test Town, U.S.A.,"
The Pittsburgh Press, 1 May 1983, 24 (Roto).

Swetnam, George.

* "Pittsburgh's First Speeding Arrest:
The Evidence Was All Guesswork But the Case Almost Got the Law in Dutch,"
The Pittsburgh Press, 7 October 1973, 3.

Wintermantel, Ed.

* "We Started It!
A Local Editor's Research Reveals Pittsburgh Now Has at Least 36 'Firsts',"
The Pittsburgh Press, 20 September 1970, 4, 6.



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