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Altoona

City in Blair County, south-central Pennsylvania, USA; population (2000) 49,500. It is situated in the Allegheny Mountains, 135 km/84 mi northwest of Harrisburg and 129 km/80 mi east of Pittsburgh. It is a railroad manufacturing and repair centre, and there is also coalmining here. The city is a business centre for the area's agricultural products and produces silk, apparel, food, among other manufactures. Altoona is the site of a campus of Pennsylvania State University.

Altoona was founded in 1849 as a base for railway building. In 1864 the USA's first steel rails were laid between Altoona and Pittsburgh; the first steel passenger car was built here in 1902. East of Altoona is a reconstruction of Fort Roberdeau, where lead for Revolutionary troops was mined.



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The first steamship line to take notice of the telephone was the Clyde, which had a wire from dock to office in 1877; and the first railway was the Pennsylvania, which two years later was persuaded by Professor Bell himself to give it a trial in Altoona.
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