- Advertising schools
- Air mail service
- All motion picture theater
- Arcade
- Artist successful in commercial art
- Automatic telephone system
- Automated people mover
- Automobile road map
- Belt conveyor system
- Bible translated to English in America
- Bird sanctuary
- Book entered for copyright
- Book for the blind
- Botany professor
- Bottler of mineral water
- Bubble gum in 1928
- Building and Loan Association
- Building erected in the United States for public use
- Cable television system
- Carpet mill
- Chemistry laboratory
- Christmas savings club
- Circus
- College for African-Americans
- College-level biology course
- Commercial high school
- Commercial museum
- Commercial oil refinery
- Commercial pretzel bakery
- Commercial production of zinc
- Commercial production of aluminum
- Commercial radio station
- Commercial use of telephone with push buttons
- Company-owned service station
- Conestoga wagon
- Crematory
- Daylight Savings Time
- Druggist
- Dual elevator in service
- Electric watch
- Electronic computer
- Electric meter
- Electric motor
- Encyclopedia
- English patent granted to a resident of America
- Fire patrol and fire insurance company
- Folding bed
- Full-scale nuclear power plant
- Geology book
- Glass crystal chandelier
- Graduate school for women
- Groundhog Day
- Hookless fastening
- Hospital
- Institution of art
- Law digest published
- Library
- Licensed hunters
- Little League baseball
- Locomotive for railroad use
- Low-rent community housing project
- Magazine
- Mass transit bus pool purchase plan in the U.S.
- Melon grown in U.S.
- Mint of the United States
- Model school
- Mushrooms
- Mustard
- Nursing school
- Passenger cable car (steepest ever built)
- Paper mill
- Patent for a passenger cable car
- Permanent theatre building
- Planned community
- Platinum metal
- Potato chips
- Preparation of soda water
- Pretzels
- Production of cottonseed oil
- Production of rayon
- Professional football game
- Printed ballot for an election
- Printer's ink
- Public use of polio vaccine
- Quinine
- Root beer
- Rough-dry laundry service
- Round-trip airplane flight
- Sausage
- Scrapple
- Steamboat
- Steel rolling mill
- Successful oil well
- Symphony orchestra
- Television and radio broadcasts KDKA in Pittsburgh
- The Pittsburgh Pirates 1st National League team in a World Series
- Tunnel for general traffic and first railroad tunnel
- Turnpike
- Vaseline
- Wallpaper
- Water pumping station
- Zipper
- Zoo