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George Westinghouse had previously founded the Westinghouse Air Brake 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. The company pioneered long-distance power transmission and high-voltage transmission. In addition to George Westinghouse, engineers working for the company include William Stanley, Nikola Tesla and Oliver Schallenberger. It was historically the rival to General Electric which was founded by George Westinghouse's arch-rival, Thomas Edison (see War of the Currents). The air brake was invented by George Westinghouse of New York State in 1868. ... City lights viewed in a motion blurred exposure. ... Nikola Tesla (Serbian Cyrillic: ) (10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a inventor, physicist, mechanical engineer, and electrical engineer. ...   Great Barrington is a town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States. ... William Stanley, Jr. ... Nikola Tesla (Serbian Cyrillic: ) (10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a inventor, physicist, mechanical engineer, and electrical engineer. ... GE redirects here. ... Edison redirects here. ... // In the War of Currents era (sometimes, War of the Currents or Battle of Currents) in the late 1880s, George Westinghouse and Thomas Edison became adversaries due to Edisons promotion of direct current (DC) for electric power distribution over the alternating current (AC) advocated by Westinghouse and Nikola Tesla. ...

The company is also known for its time capsule contributions during the 1939 New York World's Fair and 1964 New York World's Fair. Trylon, Perisphere and Helicline photo by Sam Gottscho The 1939-40 New York Worlds Fair, located on the current site of Flushing Meadows-Corona Park (also the location of the 1964-1965 New York Worlds Fair), was one of the largest worlds fairs of all time. ... View of the New York Worlds Fair 1964/1965 as seen from the observation towers of the New York State pavilion. ...

Timeline of company evolution

• 1889 - renames itself the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company
• 1890s
  • 1891 - build world's first commercial AC system (Ames Hydroelectric Generating Plant)
  • 1893 - supplies electric lights and power for Chicago World Fair
  • 1895 - installs hydropower AC generators at Niagara Falls which supplied power to Buffalo, NY
  • 1899 - founds British Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company
• 1900s
  • 1901 - acquires Bryant Electric Company of Bridgeport, Connecticut, which continues operation as a subsidiary
  • 1909 - ousts George Westinghouse as chairman during bankruptcy reorganization
• 1910s
  • 1914 - acquires Copeman Electric Stove Company in Flint, Michigan from Lloyd Groff Copeman, moves it to Mansfield, Ohio and enters the home appliance market (sold in 1974 to White Consolidated Industries)
  • 1915 - New England Westinghouse Company opens for business. First product: Mosin-Nagant rifles for the Czar's army.
  • 1916 - share of British Westinghouse purchased by a British holding company, which becomes Metropolitan-Vickers
• 1920s - enters the broadcasting industry, with stations like KDKA in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• 1930s - enters the nuclear age with an industrial atom smasher.
  • 1934 - opens its Home of Tomorrow in Mansfield, Ohio, to demonstrate Westinghouse home appliances
  • 1935 - completes longest continuous electric steel annealing furnace in the world at Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Michigan
• 1930s - funds invention of the magnetohydrodynamic generator

Close up of Westinghouse logo on historic kitchen stove at John & Mable Ringling Museum, Sarasota

• 1940s - enters aviation with airborne radar (defense electronics sold 1996), jet engine propulsion, and ground based airport lighting.
  • 1941 - after years of resistance to the unionization efforts of its employees and to the National Labor Relations Act,^[1] signs a national labor agreement with the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America after a US Supreme Court decision that upheld the Act.^[2]
  • 1945 - renames itself the Westinghouse Electric Corporation, and makes first automatic elevator.
• 1950s - enters consumer finance with Westinghouse Credit Corporation
• 1960s - acquires ThermoKing, begins automated mass transit (sold 1988); adopts "You Can Be Sure If It's Westinghouse" as advertising slogan for home appliances
• 1970s - sells well-known home appliance division to White Consolidated Industries which becomes White-Westinghouse
• 1979 - sells off all Oil Refineries and closes other civic projects in Iran after the Iranian Revolution.
• 1980s - acquires cable television operator TelePrompter (sold 1985) and robot maker Unimation; sells street light division to Cooper Lighting, elevator/escalator division to Schindler Group, and lamp division to Philips.
  • 1988 - closes the East Pittsburgh plant, which had once been the primary Westinghouse manufacturing facility.
  • 1989 - sells watthour meter division at Raleigh, North Carolina to Asea Brown Boveri Group.
• 1990s
  • 1994 - sells electric power distribution and control business unit to Eaton Corporation for $1 billion
  • 1995 - buys CBS for US$5.4 billion.
  • 1996 - buys Infinity Broadcasting
  • 1996 - sells Westinghouse Electronic Systems defense business to Northrop Grumman for $3 billion, becoming Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems.
  • 1997 - sells most non-broadcast operations; renames itself CBS Corporation
  • 1998 - sells remaining manufacturing asset, its nuclear energy business, to BNFL which sold it to Toshiba in 2006 which still operates it as Westinghouse Electric Company today.
  • 1998 - CBS Corporation creates a new subsidiary called Westinghouse Electric Corporation to manage the Westinghouse brand.
  • 1999 - sells itself to Viacom, Inc.
• 2000s
  • 2005 - Viacom renamed itself CBS Corporation

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See also

• For other companies named Westinghouse see Westinghouse.
• For the spinoff nuclear energy company see Westinghouse Electric Company.
• Westinghouse Works, 1904
• Westinghouse Broadcasting, also known as Group W
• Siemens Westinghouse, also known as Siemens Power Generation, Inc.

The name Westinghouse can refer to any number of devices and independent businesses that trace their roots to the work of George Westinghouse: People George Westinghouse, founder of Westinghouse Electric Corporation Places George Westinghouse Bridge in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Westinghouse Park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Devices Westinghouse air brake, patented by... Westinghouse Electric Company is a nuclear reactor technology business company, providing nuclear services, power plants, nuclear fuel, and fuel handling equipment to utilities and governments in the United States, Europe, and Asia. ... Westinghouse Works, 1904 is a collection of 21 short films, averaging about three minutes each, taken of various Westinghouse manufacturing plants from April 13, 1904 to May 16, 1904. ... The Westinghouse Broadcasting Company, also known as Group W, was a division of Westinghouse Electric Corporation. ... Siemens Power Generation, Inc (SPGI) is a power generation company based in the United States. ...

Notes

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External links

• Timeline of Westinghouse historical events
• "Who Killed Westinghouse?" - Contemporary Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article detailing Westinghouse's history and break-up
• What Happened to Westinghouse?. Pittsburgh Technology Council (March 1999).