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	21 RARE FILMS OF WESTINGHOUSE WORKS FROM 1904 at USHistoricalArchive.com
		Since the lamp was made by Westinghouse and was later featured prominently in advertising for AM&B films, it is possible that there may have been a special arrangement between the two companies--perhaps motion pictures in exchange for lamps, or photographing the Westinghouse Works as a test run for the use of the lamp.
		Testing large turbines, Westinghouse works - On the left of the screen, a small group of men lift the top off of what appears to be a turbine with a crane and continue to check the machine, tightening various parts with wrenches.
		Westinghouse Air Brake Co. Westinghouse works - A large group of men are shown performing various tasks in one room at the Westinghouse Air Brake Co. On one side, men are shown pouring a hot liquid into molds on the floor.
	www.ushistoricalarchive.com /cds/westinghouse.html (1695 words)

	Westinghouse Electric (1886) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Westinghouse Electric Corporation was an organization founded by George Westinghouse in 1886 as Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company.
		Westinghouse Electric received the rights for the first patent for alternating-current transmission from Nikola Tesla and unveiled the technology for lighting in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
		In addition to George Westinghouse, engineers working for the company include William Stanley, Nikola Tesla and Oliver Schallenberger.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Westinghouse_Electric_Corporation (451 words)

	Westinghouse Works, 1904
		When the Westinghouse Air Brake Company relocated to the suburban town of Wilmerding, the company furthered its image as progressive by instituting a series of measures of welfare work aimed at bettering the working and living conditions of the employees.
		Westinghouse and this Company have endeavored to instill into the employees has resulted in the organization of the "Electric Club," the membership of which is composed of apprentices and employees of the various Westinghouse Companies...Lectures of a technical and popular nature are given twice a week.
		The response of the Westinghouse Company to unionism during this period is exhibited by the strike which occurred in 1903 at the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/papr/west/westcond.html (1304 words)

	Westinghouse Works, 1904
		Westinghouse saw the potential for electricity and formed the Westinghouse Electric Company in 1884, later known as the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company.
		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.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/papr/west/westgorg.html (898 words)

	American Memory Collection (Motion Picture and Television Reading Room, Library ofCongress)
		Work, school, and leisure activities in the United States from 1894 to 1915 are featured in this presentation of 150 motion pictures, 88 of which are digitized for the first time (62 are also available in other American Memory presentations).
		The documentation was largely the work of the Paradise Valley Folklife Project (1978-1982), a research initiative conducted by the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress.
		Most prominently featured are the Westinghouse Air Brake Company, the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, and the Westinghouse Machine Company.
	www.loc.gov /rr/mopic/ndlmps.html (800 words)

	Air Brakes History George Westinghouse Car
		The various Westinghouse Companies were the product of the mechanical inventiveness and the business acumen of one man--inventor and manufacturer George...
		George Westinghouse invented a primitive air brake that used a series of air reservoirs.
		Westinghouse was not the first to conceive the idea of operating railway brakes by air...
	www.vldb04.org /airbrakeshistorygeorgewestinghousecar.html (253 words)

	Westinghouse Works (1904) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-24)
		This is a compilation of 3 films in the Westinghouse series of shorts filmed in April and May of 1904, and contained in the 3-disk boxed DVD set called "More Treasures from American Film Archives, 1894-1931" (2004), compiled by the National Film Preservation Foundation from 5 American film archives.
		The first film in the compilation is _Panoramic View Aisle B (1904)_, and the second film is Girls Winding Armatures (1904).
		This documentary of the Westinghouse plant circa 1904 is divided into three parts.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0178983 (383 words)

	Labor Day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-24)
		This is a chance for you to find out what it was like to have to work instead of having the chance to go to school.
		Using primary source materials and two essays, you will compare the rules governing work enforced on two plantations and in two factories during the 19th century.
		Using the wealth of resources at the Library of Congress, explore the question " How did work affect the American child within a rapidly growing industrial society between 1880 and 1920?" Gain expertise in analyzing historical data on coal breaker boys, cranberry bog workers, potato workers, and migrant fruit workers.
	score.rims.k12.ca.us /score_lessons/labor_day (1341 words)

	96521990
		Steam hammer, Westinghouse works / American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.
		From what appears to be a furnace, a large, glowing block is lifted with the help of a crane over to a table by a group of men.
		Ref print and dupe neg include a pullback and 1 ft. of fl; this printing error has been edited out in production of a digital file.
	hdl.loc.gov /loc.mbrsmi/westhpp.2206 (255 words)

	National Labor Union Requested an Eight-Hour Workday
		However, its efforts heightened public awareness of labor issues and increased public support for labor reform in the 1870s and 1880s.
		In this film, turn-of-the-century factory workers keep track of the hours they worked by punching a time clock.
		Inside an American Factory: Films of the Westinghouse Works, 1904, American Memory collections, Library of Congress.
	www.americaslibrary.gov /cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/recon/workday_1 (133 words)

	96522213
		Taping coils, Westinghouse works / American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.
		Numerous women stand at several rows of tables where they appear to be wrapping tape around some devices, presumably coils.
		Filmed April 27, 1904, at the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
	hdl.loc.gov /loc.mbrsmi/westhpp.2214 (196 words)

	Labor Day
		The promise of opportunity in America resulted in working conditions that were harsh and dangerous for many men, women and children.
		Other leaders from more recent times were involved in the spread of labor union rights to previously under represented segments of the economy such as agriculture.
		Gain a personal perspective on work in an emerging industrial society and its effect on the American child.
	score.rims.k12.ca.us /score_lessons/special_events/labor_day (1364 words)

	Panorama Exterior Westinghouse Works (1904) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-24)
		The view from a moving train shows some of the Westinghouse interests and the surrounding areas.
		Although this piece is no masterpiece of the American cinema, it is worthy of some comment.
		It is one of a series of industrial films shot by Billy Bitzer (later D.W. Griffith's cameraman) at the Westinghouse works near Pittsburgh, one of the earliest examples of industrial film making.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0178811 (334 words)

	Rebel Graphics :: iwwhistorical
		Inside an American Factory: Films of the Westinghouse Works, 1904
		Working in Paterson, Reference To 1913 IWW Strike
		Working in Patterson: Occupational Heritage in an Urban Setting
	www.rebelgraphics.org /iwwhistorical.html (268 words)

	American Women's History: Timeline
		The Mother Jones Collection [American Catholic History Center, The Catholic University Of America] includes the correspondence of Jones and John Mitchell and a small collection of photographs.
		Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl [American Social History Project, Center for Media and Learning] is the companion site to a film that tells the story of two fictional New York City immigrant teenagers who worked in the garment industry in the first decade of the twentieth century.
		Kheel Center Labor Photos database includes images of the strike, as well as images of ILGWU activities covering most of the twentieth century.
	www.mtsu.edu /~kmiddlet/history/women/wh-1900c.html (426 words)

	decades.html
		Here's an informative decade-by-decade tour of the popular culture of 20th-century America, exploring eight areas: art and architecture, books and literature, fads and fashion, education, historic events and technology, music, persons and personalities, and theater and film.
		Here's a glimpse at the lives of migrant work camp residents in central California in the early 1940s.
		Here's where you can interview Rosa Parks, learn about the history of jazz with Mynton Marsalis, or know what it might feel like to be one of the Little Rock Nine or to give up your seat on a segregated bus.
	www.cfsd.k12.az.us /~ecwww/library/decades.html (762 words)

	American Women's History: Timeline
		National Women's Trade Union League of America founded, 1903 Women Working, 1800-1930, Harvard University Library] provides an overview and numerous primary sources in digital format.
		National Child Labor Committee (NCLC) [Women Working, 1800-1930, Harvard University Library] provides an overview of the NCLC, primary sources in digital format, and links to additional web resources.
		American Women: A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States.
	www.mtsu.edu /~kmiddlet/history/women/wh-1900.html (1099 words)

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		But 'this is the real world,' says Ikenberry, referring to her current frustration." "Ikenberry and Kornblith were supposed to be researching the topic of freed slaves.
		Although this involves more work on the part of the students than assembling a coursepack, it is far cheaper, and definitely superior to putting the course packs on reserve, especially when there are over 30 people in the course.
		For several years there has been a firm at Ohio State University that works cooperatively with professors and will not perform this service without the permission of the professor; however, a new firm has recently entered the market and is not the least cooperative.
	eh.net /pipermail/eh.teach/1997-February.txt (7966 words)

	INSIDE AN AMERICAN FACTORY: Films of the Westinghouse Works, 1904 : Obtaining Copies of American Memory Film Collection ...
		INSIDE AN AMERICAN FACTORY: Films of the Westinghouse Works, 1904 : Obtaining Copies of American Memory Film Collection Materials (MotionPicture and Television Reading Room, Library ofCongress)
		PP Westinghouse Air Brake Co. Westinghouse Co. Works (Casting Scene)
		PP Westinghouse Air Brake Co. Westinghouse Co. Works (Moulding Scene)
	www.loc.gov /rr/mopic/ammem/west.html (121 words)

	Westinghouse spares and system support by Zeefax Limited
		Westinghouse spares and system support by Zeefax Limited
		The Library of Congress does not endorse the views expressed in these collections, which may contain materials offensive to some readers.
		The Westinghouse World: The Companies, the People, and the Places
	www.zeefax.com /westinghouse.htm (219 words)

	Westinghouse Works, 1904 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-24)
		Projects worked on by Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company during this period
		Life in Wilmerding, home of the Westinghouse Air Brake Company ("The Ideal Home Town" from The Wilmerding News, September 2, 1904)
		(Images to left and right: two train signals made by Westinghouse's Union Switch and Signal Company.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/papr/west/westpres.html (77 words)

	Readings: STS.092 Technology & Environment in Industrial America
		Joel A. Tarr, "Searching for a 'Sink' for an Industrial Waste," in Out of the Woods: Essays in Environmental History, Char Miller and Hal Rothman, eds.
		Lindy Biggs, The Rational Factory: Architecture, Technology, and Work in America's Age of Mass Production (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996), 95-160
		Films of the Westinghouse Works, 1904, Air-Brake Company
	web.mit.edu /course/other/sts.092/www/readings.html (438 words)

	US History - WWW Resources - Gilded Age
		Guided Readings on Industrialization and the Working Class
		The Samuel Gompers Papers: A Documentary History of the American Working Class
		The Working Class History of the United States
	mywebpages.comcast.net /mruland/USResources/Gilded/baronslabor.htm (501 words)

	AV #66513 - Digital Video Disc - More Treasures from American Film Archives 1894 - 1931: Program 3
		This volume includes: Rip Van Winkle (1896, 4 minutes) director W. Dickson, starring Joseph Jefferson, Mr.
		Edison at Work in His Chemical Laboratory (1897, 30 seconds), Life of an American Fireman (1903, 6 min.) director Edwin S. Porter.
		See also 16mm AV # 1265, vhs AV # 10131 and # 89859.
	www.sfsu.edu /~avitv/avcatalog/66513.htm (117 words)

	Impact of Industrialization and Urbanization (1870-1920)
		Films of America at Work, School and Leisure (1894-1915), from L.O.C. American Memories Collection
		Inside an American Factory, Films of the Westinghouse Works (1904, from L.O.C. American Memories Collection:
		PBS's "The American Experience" site with info and links concerning the program "Andrew Carnegie":
	www.maxwell.syr.edu /plegal/ppa/usppares7.html (372 words)

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