Short answers, pulled from the story.
Scottish General John Forbes named the settlement Pittsburgh in 1758 after British statesman William Pitt. The name honors the Earl of Chatham and reflects Forbes own Scottish heritage in pronunciation.
Andrew Carnegie started steel production in 1875 at the Edgar Thomson Steel Works in North Braddock, Pennsylvania. This facility evolved into the Carnegie Steel Company using the Bessemer process to increase output.
Eight hundred sets of outdoor public stairways contain forty-four thousand six hundred forty-five treads. These stairs provide vertical feet totaling twenty-four thousand ninety feet across the urban landscape.
The Pittsburgh Pirates founded their franchise in 1881 making them the oldest professional sports team in the city. They play at PNC Park and have won five World Series championships.
The population dropped from 680,000 in 1950 due to suburbanization and economic turbulence. Deindustrialization in the late twentieth century resulted in massive layoffs among blue-collar workers.