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This is a list of firsts in
Poland.
Politics and government
Education and academia
Science and technology
- First railway:
Wrocław to
Oława (then in German territory) completed on 22 May 1842.
- First airport: aeroplanes flew from
Elbląg Airport (then in German territory, and now closed) in 1912.
- First welded road bridge:
Maurzyce Bridge ended in 1928, first road bridge in these technic in world
- First nuclear reactor: The
Ewa reactor R1 in the Instytut Badań Jądrowych (Institute of Nuclear Research), started on July 13, 1954.
- First motorway: Warszawa-Katowice, so called "Gierkówka", 1976.
- First line of the
Warsaw Metro:
Kabaty to
Politechinka, opened on April 7, 1995.
Culture
Other