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Pennsylvania was home to the nation's first:
- electric motor
- electronic computer
- automatic telephone system
- belt conveyor system
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Pennsylvania was the birthplace of the nation's first:
- Turnpike
- Conestoga wagon
- patent for a passenger cable car
- steamboat
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Pennsylvania was home to the nation's first:
- model school
- college for African-Americans
- advertising schools
- graduate school for women
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- 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.
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Pennsylvania was home to the nation's first:
- television and radio broadcasts
- commercial radio station
- cable television system
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Pennsylvania was home to the nation's first:
- zoo
- bird sanctuary
- commercial museum
- symphony orchestra
- permanent theatre building
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Pennsylvania is first in the production of:
- mushrooms
- potato chips
- scrapple
- sausage
- pretzels
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Pennsylvania was home to the nation's first:
- geology book
- college-level biology course
- chemistry laboratory
- botany professor
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Pennsylvania was home to the nation's first:
- successful oil well
- carpet mill
- paper mill
- steel rolling mill
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Pennsylvania was home to the nation's first:
- full-scale nuclear power plant
- electric meter
- commercial oil refinery
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Pennsylvania was home to the nation's first:
- library
- institution of art
- magazine
- encyclopedia
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Pennsylvania was home to the nation's first:
- hospital
- nursing school
- use of the polio vaccine
- druggist
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