Editing Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (section)

===Inventions===
[[File:Frakturcertificate.jpg|thumb|A [[Pennsylvania Dutch]] Fraktur baptismal certificate from 1788]]
* [[Fraktur (Pennsylvania German folk art)|Fraktur]], the artistic and elaborate 18th- century and 19th-century hand-illuminated folk art inspired by German blackface type, originated at [[Johann Conrad Beissel]]'s [[Ephrata Cloister|cloister]] of German [[Seventh Day Baptists]] in [[Ephrata, Pennsylvania|Ephrata]].<ref>[http://antiquesandthearts.com/archive/frak.htm Fraktur] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060813155025/http://antiquesandthearts.com/archive/frak.htm |date=August 13, 2006 }}. Antiquesandthearts.com. Retrieved December 23, 2010.</ref>
* The first battery-powered watch, the [[Hamilton Electric 500]], was released in 1957 by the [[Hamilton Watch Company]].<ref>[http://www.thewatchguy.com/pages/HAMILTONELECT.html Hamilton Electric Watch History] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051104002157/http://www.thewatchguy.com/pages/HAMILTONELECT.html |date=November 4, 2005 }}. Thewatchguy.com (January 3, 1957; retrieved December 23, 2010.)</ref>
* The [[Long rifle|Pennsylvania Long Rifle]],<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/19990222153107/http://ourancestry.com/rifle.html Story of the Pennsylvania Rifle]. Ourancestry.com. Retrieved December 23, 2010.</ref> otherwise known as the "Kentucky" (Long) Rifle.
* The [[Conestoga wagon]],<ref>[http://www.explorepahistory.com/hmarker.php?markerId=362]  {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121022015742/http://www.explorepahistory.com/hmarker.php?markerId=362|date=October 22, 2012}}</ref> which started the US practice of opposing vehicles passing each other to the right.
* The [[Stogie]] cigar<ref>[http://www.pa-roots.com/~westmoreland/historyproject/vol1/chap18.html History of Westmoreland County, Volume 1, Chapter 18] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060505041608/http://www.pa-roots.com/~westmoreland/historyproject/vol1/chap18.html |date=May 5, 2006 }}. Pa-roots.com. Retrieved December 23, 2010.</ref> "Stogie" is shortened from "Conestoga".
* The Amish [[quilting|quilt]], a highly utilitarian art form, dates from 1849 in Lancaster County.<ref>[http://www.amishloft.com/amishloft/Lancaster_County_Amish_quilts.html Amish Loft Quilts] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060819162012/http://www.amishloft.com/amishloft/Lancaster_County_Amish_quilts.html |date=August 19, 2006 }}. Amishloft.com. Retrieved December 23, 2010.</ref>