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[quote user="Poppa_Zit"][quote user="dsktc"] Sadly, the company George Westinghouse founded no longer exists.<a href="http://www.post-gazette.com/westinghouse/beginning.asp">http://www.post-gazette.com/westinghouse/beginning.asp</a>The current corporate iteration, Westinghouse Electric Company, is owned by Toshiba and "provides fuel, services, technology, plant design, and equipment for the commercial nuclear electric power industry."<a href="http://www.westinghousenuclear.com/index.shtm">http://www.westinghousenuclear.com/index.shtm</a><a href="http://www.post-gazette.com/westinghouse/beginning.asp"></a>The George Westinghouse Museum in Wilmerding has also closed, its collections and endowment acquired by the Historical Society of Western PA.Dave[/quote] I used to work for the Westinghouse Broadcasting division (the "Group W") of Westinghouse Electric. It bought out and became today's CBS. Once a great company, Westinghouse pioneered TV and radio stations including the first commercial radio station in the U.S. -- KDKA in Pittsburgh.[img]http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/9/9d/100px-GroupWlogo.PNG[/img]George Westinghouse should be remembered as a genius in many arenas. He'd be equally famous as Thomas Edison if he'd self-promoted the way Edison did.When Edison was trying to peddle to towns and industry his low-voltage direct current (DC) system -- which had the inherent attribute of not being able to move the current very far --Westinghouse Electric received the rights for the first patent for alternating-current (AC) transmission from Westinghouse's friend Nikola Tesla -- who greatly disliked Edison, mainly for innovative work he was never paid for.Edison kept busy pushing the benefits of DC. In an attempt to discredit Tesla and Westinghouse, Edison went around the country electrocuting animals with AC.Westinghouse Electric -- with Tesla's help -- built the first huge generating plant at Niagara Falls. Westinghouse Electric was the major competition for Edison's General Electric for decades and specialized in moving and delivering high voltage current long distances. Tesla had conceived the rotating magnetic field principle in 1882 and used it to invent the first brushless AC motor or induction motor in 1883.Westinghouse supplied the power and lighting for the Chicago World Fair of 1893 (Columbian Exhibition) as well as some of the traction motors for the elevated electric rail shuttle trains that moved visitors around the fair.He dedicated himself to making the nation's railroads safer and more efficient. He was only 19 years old when he debuted his first invention, the rotary steam engine. At age 21, he invented a "car replacer" -- the device to guide derailed railroad cars back onto the tracks. He also invented the reversible frog, the part of a railroad turnout (switch) to guide trains onto one of two tracks. Westinghouse also pursued many improvements in railroad signals (then using oil lamps) and in 1881 he founded the Union Switch and Signal Co. to manufacture his signaling and switching inventions.The Westinghouse air brake:[img]http://www.narhf.org/nar99/Westbr1.gif[/img] [/quote] KDKA's historic first broadcast of 2 November 1920 took place from atop the  K Building in Turtle Creek.  The K Building, which was demolished last year, was part of the massive East Pittsburgh Works of Westinghouse Electric Company, where Steam Generators were manufactured and transported by Schnabel Cars, by the way.  Westinghouse also produced electric locomotives there many decades ago.<a href="http://www.kdkaradio.com/pages/15486.php">http://www.kdkaradio.com/pages/15486.php</a><a href="http://www.kdkaradio.com/pages/15491.php">http://www.kdkaradio.com/pages/15491.php</a><a href="http://southern.railfan.net/schnabel/cars/wecx102/westinghousegen.jpg">http://southern.railfan.net/schnabel/cars/wecx102/westinghousegen.jpg</a>Dave
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