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	Who Made America? \| Innovators \| George Westinghouse, Jr.
		George Westinghouse was instrumental in increasing the safety of the American railroad system and encouraging the growth of the transportation industry.
		In total Westinghouse made over 300 inventions that revolved around railroad travel, including a rotary steam engine, an effective means of righting cars that had been derailed, and a "frog," a switch that allowed trains to "hop" across rails at a junction.
		Westinghouse also experimented with electricity and developed a transformer that could bring alternating current (AC) electricity down from high voltage to low -- thus enabling AC to travel long distances while still making it ready for use.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/theymadeamerica/whomade/westinghouse_lo.html (496 words)

	Westinghouse Lighting Corporation
		In fact, Westinghouse Lighting Corporation is the only company that offers this many high-quality lighting products under one roof.
		Westinghouse Lighting Corporation presents decorative two-piece medallions that install easily around existing lighting fixtures and ceiling fans.
		Westinghouse's aluminum reflector compact fluorescent PAR lamps provide the lumen output and color of conventional halogen PAR lamps while reducing energy costs by up to $60 per lamp.
	www.westinghouselighting.com (192 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / “ST. GEORGE” WESTINGHOUSE
		Westinghouse built a successful scale model of a compressed-air braking system and again asked his father for financial backing, hoping he might think more highly of his inventions now that railroads were buying his frogs and replacers.
		Westinghouse himself tested a brake system with electrically operated valves, but he remained convinced that electrical connections could not yet be relied upon to withstand the punishment endured by the typical freight train.
		Westinghouse greatly simplified the design by replacing Gaulard and Gibbs’s stamped copper disks with insulated copper wire, which could be wound around the transformer’s iron core by machine.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/it/1997/3/1997_3_28.shtml (6144 words)

	Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Who Killed Westinghouse? - In the beginning. . .
		That's where Westinghouse and his team of scientists focused their energies, inventing the transformer and other transmission and distribution devices that made electricity more economical and useful.
		Westinghouse formed his company, Westinghouse Electric Co., in 1886, the same year he showed off the promise of AC by lighting up the small New England village of Barrington, Mass., for two weeks.
		Westinghouse Electric underwent a bankruptcy reorganization twice during his tenure, the second ending with his ouster as chairman in 1909.
	www.post-gazette.com /westinghouse/beginning.asp (926 words)

	Inventor of the Week: Archive
		George Westinghouse was a visionary of technology and business, whose ideas transformed the safety and services of the American railroad and electricity industries.
		Westinghouse began a prolific career of inventing (over 300 inventions), with a patented rotary steam engine, a system for righting derailed railroad cars, and a railroad frog (a switch that allows a train's wheels to "leap" across intersecting rails at a junction).
		Westinghouse had invented a special reduction valve that allowed highly pressurized natural gas to be emitted at the point of use in bursts at low pressure.
	web.mit.edu /invent/iow/westinghouse.html (521 words)

	Westinghouse Air Brake Company Check signed twice by George Westinghouse (Revenue Stamps on Back) - 1872
		George Westinghouse returned to Schenectady after the end of the war in 1865, where he studied engineering at Union College while he dreamed up new inventions, mostly related to the railroads.
		Westinghouse hired him as a consultant for a year and from 1888 onwards the wide scale introduction of the polyphase AC motor began.
		Westinghouse Air Brake Company The air brake was invented by George Westinghouse of New York State in 1868.
	www.scripophily.net /weairbrchsit.html (2985 words)

	George Westinghouse
		George Westinghouse was born in Central Bridge, New York, on October 6 1846.
		George Westinghouse returned to Schenectady after the end of the war in 1865, where he studied engineering at Union College[?] while he dreamed up new inventions, mostly related to the railroads.
		At one time, Westinghouse began to work on heat pumps that could provide heating and cooling, and even believed that he might be able to extract enough power in the process for the system to run itself.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ge/George_Westinghouse.html (2078 words)

	George Westinghouse (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Westinghouse believed AC was cheaper, more efficient and did not require the thick copper wiring DC current needed for conduction.
		Westinghouse teamed with Nikola Tesla (1857-1943) and bought the patent for the polyphase induction motor, which made his AC system unique.
		In 1893, the Westinghouse Electric Co. lit the first Columbia Exposition in Chicago and in 1895 harnessed the Niagara Falls to generate electricity for the lights of Buffalo, NY, 22 miles away.
	www.ce.org /Events/Awards/440.htm (536 words)

	Inventor George Westinghouse Biography
		George Westinghouses’ father in the early part of the nineteenth century moved from Vermont to Ohio and settled at Central Bridge, New York, as a farmer.
		When George was 10 years old his family moved to Schenectary, New York whee his father started the firm of G. Westinghouse and Company to manufactured farm implements.While working with his father young George acquired a realistic sense of tools, materials, machinery and structures.
		Westinghouse organized the Westinghouse Electric Company to manufacture and promote the use of alternating-current system equipment, and became a spirited competitor of Edison and his DC system.
	www.ideafinder.com /history/inventors/westinghouse.htm (2805 words)

	Westinghouse Works, 1904
		The various Westinghouse Companies were the product of the mechanical inventiveness and the business acumen of one man--inventor and manufacturer George Westinghouse.
		Westinghouse's company took on another industrial challenge when it was awarded a contract with the Cataract Construction Company in 1893 to build 3 huge generators for harnessing the energy of the Niagara Falls water into electrical energy.
		Westinghouse made further industrial history by acquiring exclusive rights to manufacture the Parsons steam turbine in America and by introducing the first alternating current locomotive in 1905.
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	George Westinghouse
		George Westinghouse was born on October 16, 1846 to George Westinghouse Sr.
		Westinghouse Electric was first successful in beating out GE for a contract to provide electricity for the Chicago’s World Fair in 1893 in the form of 92,000 lamps and an electric kitchen.
		George Westinghouse provided America with an example of determination and persistence in the development of countless practical innovations over the span of his lifetime.
	www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu /LitMap/bios/Westinghouse__George.html (1526 words)

	The Life of George Westinghouse - Succeed through Studying Biographies: School for Champions
		George Westinghouse (1846-1914) became famous as the inventor of the railroad air brake.
		Westinghouse's company was financially weakened, and he had to rescind on the royalty contract he had signed with Tesla.
		George Westinghouse was an inventor and businessman that help to bring the electrical age to the world.
	www.school-for-champions.com /biographies/westinghouse.htm (1144 words)

	George Westinghouse
		Born in Central Bridge, New York, on October 6, 1846, George Westinghouse was the eighth of 10 children.
		Acclaimed in his time as the "greatest living engineer," George Westinghouse was accorded numerous honors in the U.S. and abroad, even after his death on March 12, 1914.
		Tesla, "George Westinghouse was, in my opinion, the only man on this globe who could take my alternating-current system under the circumstances then existing and win the battle against prejudice and money power.
	www.westinghousenuclear.com /Our_Company/history/george_westinghouse.shtm (660 words)

	Invent Now \| Hall of Fame \| Search \| Inventor Profile
		George Westinghouse invented a system of air brakes that made travel by train safe and built one of the greatest electric manufacturing organizations in the United States.
		In 1886 he founded the Westinghouse Electric Company, foreseeing the possibilities of alternating current as opposed to direct current, which was limited to a radius of two or three miles.
		Westinghouse enlisted the services of Nikola Tesla and other inventors in the development of alternating current motors and apparatus for the transmission of high-tension current, pioneering large-scale municipal lighting.
	www.invent.org /hall_of_fame/151.html (288 words)

	George Westinghouse information - Search.com
		George Westinghouse returned to Schenectady after the end of the war in 1865, where he studied engineering at Union College while he dreamed up new inventions, mostly related to the railroads.
		Westinghouse also received a contract to set up the first long-range power network, with AC generators at Niagara Falls producing electricity for distribution in Buffalo, New York, 40 kilometers (25 miles) away.
		At one time, Westinghouse began to work on heat pumps that could provide heating and cooling, and even believed that he might be able to extract enough power in the process for the system to run itself.
	www.search.com /reference/George_Westinghouse (2344 words)

	IEEE - George Westinghouse, 1846 - 1914
		George Westinghouse was born in Central Bridge, New York, on 6 October 1846.
		There followed many successes for Westinghouse's company in the fields of power generation and the application of electricity to industry, rail and marine transportation, the military and to the home, and in the development of radio broadcasting and nuclear power.
		Westinghouse was awarded the AIEE Edison Medal, named for his strongest opponent, in 1911 "For meritorious achievement in connection with the development of the alternating current system for light and power." He died in New York on 12 March 1914.
	www.ieee.org /web/aboutus/history_center/biography/westinghouse.html (860 words)

	Westinghouse Heating and Cooling
		The history of Westinghouse began in the 19th century, and the legacy of George Westinghouse still continues today.
		Westinghouse is responsible for improving the quality of life for millions.
		Westinghouse heating and cooling products are backed by some of the best warranties, including our quality pledge: We will guarantee the replacement of your unit if you have a major component failure within the first five years of ownership.
	www.westinghousehvac.com /WHCompany.asp (234 words)

	GEORGE WESTINGHOUSE ... his original internet site!
		George Westinghouse, Jr., the son of a man who made farm machinery in New York, may have been the most productive inventor on record.
		Westinghouse was born in Central Bridge, New York on October 6, 1846.
		In 1866, perhaps the year that changed his life, George was riding a train suddenly brought to a halt to avoid colliding into a wrecked train on the rails ahead.
	users.telerama.com /~rs7717/george.html (756 words)

	Westinghouse Inter-Works Railway Company - Never more than 200 of any product. Now that's a Collectible!
		George Westinghouse, Jr., the son of a man who made farm machinery in New York, may have been the most productive inventor on record, even greater than Thomas Edison.
		Or, that the first radio station in the world was Westinghouse KDKA in Pittsburgh; that the first practical induction motor, the first contract to harness the enormous water power of Niagara Falls and the first power station turbine generator were all credited to Westinghouse.
		George Westinghouse was perhaps the most prolific inventor on record, but few know of his accomplishments.
	www.georgewestinghouse.com /railroad (569 words)

	George Westinghouse 1846-1914: Notable Pittsburgh Inventors: Reference Services: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
		George Westinghouses’ father in the early part of the nineteenth century moved from Vermont to Ohio and settled at Central Bridge, New York, as a farmer before forming the firm of G. Westinghouse and Co. at Schenectary, NY, in 1856 where he manufactured farm implements.
		Westinghouse engaged William Stanley to assist him in electrical development in 1885 and organized the Westinghouse Electric Co. the next year after purchasing the Gaulard and Gibbs transformer patents for the distribution of electricity by alternating currents and began the manu- facture of electric lighting apparatus.
		Westinghouse’s last major invention was an air spring used on automobile and motor trucks which was completed in 1912.
	www.clpgh.org /locations/reference/ptdl/pgh/westing.html (619 words)

	George Westinghouse
		George Westinghouse was born in Central Bridge, New York, west of Albany.
		Westinghouse perfected the first of his long list of successful inventions with the development of a “railway frog” or “reversible frog” which enabled trains to be placed on tracks.
		George Westinghouse Related History • Electric Chair Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse were rivals in the early days of the electrical utility industry and the electric chair played a strange role in this rivalry.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h863.html (535 words)

	George Westinghouse - MSN Encarta
		Westinghouse was born in Central Bridge, New York, and educated at what is now Union College and the University at Schenectady, New York.
		His first important invention, developed while he was employed in his father's factory in Schenectady, was a so-called railway frog, a device permitting trains to cross from one track to another.
		Westinghouse invented many other safety devices, especially for automatic railway signaling; developed a system for transporting natural gas; and acquired more than 400 patents, including many for alternating-current machinery.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761565427/George_Westinghouse.html (159 words)

	K/E Electric Supply Co.
		Westinghouse was soon attracted by the challenges of improving railroad technology.
		Two of Westinghouse's greatest inventions were that of the car replacer and the air brake.
		Westinghouse purchased the alternating current patents of William Stanley, Lucien Goulard and John Gibbs.
	www.keelectric.com /leg_westinghouse.htm (522 words)

	The Free Information Society - George Westinghouse Biography
		George Westinghouse was born on October 6, 1846 in New York City.
		Throughout the next several years, Westinghouse worked on developing new technology for the generation and transmission of electricity, applying it to devices such as trolleys and elevators.
		George Westinghouse was very depressed from the failure of his company and died on March 12, 1914 in New York City.
	www.freeinfosociety.com /site.php?postnum=51 (652 words)

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