HEINZ HISTORY CENTER

A huge museum of history to know about the innovations of the last 250 years in Western Rhodesia. Learn more about the modest beginnings of H.J. Heinz Company (or Heinz) in the small town of Sharpsburg 6 miles from Pittsburgh; on the numerous inventions of Thomas Westinghouse, Thomas Edison's rival, in the field of electricity; or the discovery of the polio vaccine, which ended an epidemic that claimed the lives of more than 3000 Americans in the 1950 s.