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Article: W. Pa. innovators' contributions resulted in significant change
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- September 20, 2009
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Innovators have long called Pittsburgh home. Here's a look at 20
men and women whose contributions in science, medicine, journalism
and the arts resulted in significant change.
Nellie Bly
(1864-1922)
The pioneering female newspaper reporter born Elizabeth Cochran
grew up in Cochran's Mills, Armstrong County, and began her career
at age 18 as a writer for The Pittsburgh Dispatch.
After joining the New York World in 1887, Bly feigned insanity to
be committed to the Women's Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell's Island.
Reforms of the deplorable living conditions there followed
publication of her story.
Bly -- whose pen name came from a song written by another
Pittsburgher, Stephen Foster -- famously ...