Pittsburgh Firsts

• Pittsburgh Firsts -- By Event
• Pittsburgh World Firsts -- By Event
• Pittsburgh World Firsts -- By Date
• For Further Reading

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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