PIttsburgh Firsts

Pittsburgh Firsts

• First newspaper west of the Alleghenies (1789) - The Pittsburgh Gazette
• First Ferris Wheel (1893)
• World's First Commercial Radio Station (1920) - KDKA
• First Ice Capades (1940)
• First All-Aluminum Building (1953) - Regional Enterprise Tower (formerly the Alcoa Building)
• First Polio Vaccine (1954) - Dr. Jonas Salk at the University of Pittsburgh
• First U.S. Public Television Station (1954) - WQED
• First Retractable Dome (1961) - Mellon Arena
• First Mass Transit Busway System (1964) - Allegheny County Port Authority
• First Nighttime World Series Game (1971)
• First Robotics Center (1979)- Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute
• First Internet emoticon, the smiley :-) (1982) - Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist Scott Fahlman