The Westinghouse Electric Company, headquartered in Monroeville, Pennsylvania, is an organization founded by George Westinghouse in 1886. George Westinghouse had previously founded the Westinghouse Air Brake Company. Westinghouse Electric received the first patent for alternating-current transmission, 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.
Timeline of company evolution
1889 renamed the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company
1997 - sells non-broadcast operations, renamed CBS
1999 - BNFL a UK nuclear company acquires CBS nuclear power business and takes the name Westinghouse Electric Company
Other companies, including a lighting company (formerly Angelo Brothers) and an appliance company White-Westinghouse (a unit of Electrolux), license or use the Westinghouse name.
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.
In the 1990s Westinghouse sold their defense division to Northrop Grumman, makers of so called 'smart bombs and nuclear weapons.
Westinghouse is the leading supplier of nuclear reactors for the U.S. nuclear submarine fleet.
In the Phillipines Westinghouse "engaged in a scheme of bribery and corruption to win a contract to build a nuclear facility in the Philippines in the mid 1970s" (MNM Dec 1991).
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