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George Westinghouse
George Westinghouse Jr. was a prolific American inventor, engineer, and entrepreneurial industrialist based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is best known for his creation of the railway air brake and for being a pioneer in the development and use of alternating current (AC) electrical power distribution. During his career, he received 360 patents for his inventions and established 61 companies, ma…
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business · American engineer, inventor, and businessman (1846–1914) · entrepreneur · inventor · also George Westinghouse, George Westinghouse Jr., Westinghouse
Born 6 October 1846 · Died 12 March 1914 · Q262367
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2023· 1 entry
2021· 1 entry
Westinghouse's 175th birthday (his "dodransbicentennial") was celebrated, Westinghouse Park was certified as an arboretum and also determined eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places
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2019· 1 entry
The Westinghouse Park 2nd Century Coalition was organized
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1989· 2 entries
Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (1989).
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Westinghouse was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame
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1986· 1 entry
The George Westinghouse Jr
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1938· 1 entry
As follows: "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
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1936· 1 entry
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers organized a commemorative forum: Presenting the Career and Achievements of George Westinghouse on the 90th Anniversary of his Birth
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1932· 1 entry
The George Westinghouse Memorial Bridge was opened in 1932 to carry US Route 30 over the Turtle Creek Valley where his many companies had flourished
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1930· 1 entry
The George Westinghouse Memorial, funded by 50,000 of his employees, was placed in Schenley Park in Pittsburgh
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1918· 2 entries
Their former Pittsburgh home, Solitude, was razed and the land given to the City of Pittsburgh to establish Westinghouse Park
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Solitude, his Pittsburgh home, was purchased by the Engineers Society of Western Pennsylvania and given to the city of Pittsburgh to establish Westinghouse Park
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1915· 1 entry
Westinghouse High School, located in Pittsburgh, a mile from his former mansion, was named in his honor
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1914· 1 entry
Died 1914-03-12.
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1913· 2 entries
Won Grashof Commemorative Medal (1913).
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Became the first American to receive the Grashoff Medal from Germany
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1911· 1 entry
Won Edison Medal (1911).
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1910· 1 entry
Was elected president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
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1906· 2 entries
Won John Fritz Medal (1906).
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The Berlin Royal Technical University awarded him an honorary doctorate of engineering
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1905· 1 entry
The American Engineering Societies honored him with the John Fritz Medal
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1898· 2 entries
Westinghouse demonstrated a 300-kilowatt generating unit, replacing reciprocating engines in his air-brake factory
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The Westinghouses leased and then in 1901 purchased the Blaine House mansion in Washington D
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1897· 1 entry
Was elected an honorary member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
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1896· 1 entry
A patent-sharing agreement was signed between the two companies
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1895· 2 entries
Was made a member of France's Legion of Honor
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Westinghouse bought rights to the Parsons turbine, and his engineers improved its technology and increased its scale
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1894· 1 entry
The Grand Army of the Republic, a fraternal organization of Union Civil War veterans, held a week-long convention in Pittsburgh
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1891· 2 entries
Westinghouse's company was in trouble
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Westinghouse built a hydroelectric AC power plant, the Ames Hydroelectric Generating Plant near Ophir, Colorado which supplied AC power to the Gold King Mine 3
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1890· 1 entry
The Edison company, in collusion with Thomson-Houston, arranged for the first electric chair to be powered with a Westinghouse AC generator
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1889· 3 entries
Renamed it the "Westinghouse Electric Corporation"
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Westinghouse purchased several mining claims in the Patagonia Mountains of southeastern Arizona and formed the Duquesne Mining & Reduction Company
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As his involvement with the generation and distribution of electricity was surging, Westinghouse resigned as president of the Philadelphia Company, but he remained on its board
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1886· 2 entries
Founded the Westinghouse Electric Corporation
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With Westinghouse's backing, Stanley installed the first multiple-voltage AC power system in Great Barrington, Massachusetts
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1885· 2 entries
Westinghouse imported several Gaulard–Gibbs transformers and a Siemens AC generator to begin experimenting with AC networks in Pittsburgh
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Westinghouse became aware of the concept of an electrical transformer introduced by Frenchman Lucien Gaulard and Englishman John Gibbs
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1884· 4 entries
The British engineer Charles Algernon Parsons at Clarke, Chapman and Co began experimenting with steam turbines and generators, producing a 10-horsepower (7
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Was awarded the Order of Leopold by Leopold II, King of the Belgians
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And 1889, he received the Order of the Royal Crown of Italy from Umberto I
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Westinghouse began developing his own DC domestic lighting system and hired physicist William Stanley to help work on it
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1874· 1 entry
Was awarded the Scott Legacy Medal by the Franklin Institute
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1869· 1 entry
At age 23, Westinghouse first publicly demonstrated his revolutionary new railroad braking system in Pittsburgh
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1868· 1 entry
Westinghouse moved with his wife to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to access better and less expensive steel for the manufacture of his railroad frogs, and there he began to develop his recently invented railroad air brake co
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1867· 1 entry
Westinghouse met Marguerite Erskine Walker on a train, and they married in August of that year
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1846· 2 entries
Born 1846-10-06.
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In the village of Central Bridge, New York (see George Westinghouse Jr
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