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Westinghouse Electric Corporation The Westinghouse Electric Corporation was an American manufacturing company founded in 1886 by George Westinghouse. It was originally named "Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company" and was renamed "Westinghouse Electric Corporation" in ...
, the company that manages the Westinghouse brand, with licensees: ** Westinghouse Electric Company, providing nuclear power-related services **
Westinghouse Electronics Westinghouse Electronics LLC is a Chinese-owned American company that manufactures LCD televisions located in Diamond Bar, California. It is a licensee of the way Westinghouse Licensing Corporation, commonly known as Westinghouse Electric Corporat ...
, which sells LED and LCD televisions ** Russell Hobbs, Inc., licensed to make small appliances such as vacuum cleaners under the Westinghouse name, from 2002 to 2008 * Siemens Energy Sector, the acquired non-nuclear energy divisions of Westinghouse Electric


Former companies and divisions

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Westinghouse Electric Corporation The Westinghouse Electric Corporation was an American manufacturing company founded in 1886 by George Westinghouse. It was originally named "Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company" and was renamed "Westinghouse Electric Corporation" in ...
, renamed CBS Corporation in 1997 **
Westinghouse Broadcasting The Westinghouse Broadcasting Company, also known as Group W, was the broadcasting division of Westinghouse Electric Corporation. It owned several radio and television stations across the United States and distributed television shows for syndicat ...
(Group W), now integrated into CBS Broadcasting, Inc. ** White-Westinghouse, acquired by Electrolux in 1986 ** Westinghouse Electronic Systems Group, sold to Northrop Grumman in 1996 **
British Westinghouse British Westinghouse Electrical and Manufacturing Company was a subsidiary of the Pittsburgh, USA based Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company. British Westinghouse would become a subsidiary of Metropolitan-Vickers in 1919; and after Me ...
, later subsumed into the General Electric Company * Westinghouse Air Brake Company, founding name of WABCO * Westinghouse Brake & Signal Company (1928 – c. 2000) * Westinghouse Signals, earlier name of Westinghouse Rail Systems *Westinghouse Brakes (UK), now part of Knorr-Bremse * Westinghouse Combustion Turbine Systems Division, a facility near the Philadelphia Airport later home to an industrial park, “Westinghouse Park” *
Westinghouse Aviation Gas Turbine Division The Westinghouse Aviation Gas Turbine Division (AGT) was established by Westinghouse Electric Corporation in 1945 to continue the development and production of its turbo-jet gas turbine engines for aircraft propulsion under contract to the US Nav ...
, maker of early turbojet engines (1945–1955) * Westinghouse Astronuclear Laboratory, late 1950s; Large, Pennsylvania; nuclear space propulsion technologies * Westinghouse Advanced Energy Systems Division, a renamed 1977 successor to Westinghouse Astronuclear Lab * Westinghouse Rail Systems, formerly Westinghouse Signals, part of Invensys * Compagnie des Freins et Signaux Westinghouse, a company in Aulnay-sous-Bois, France near Paris; see History of the transistor


Buildings and structures

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George Westinghouse Bridge George Westinghouse Memorial Bridge in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, carries U.S. Route 30, the Lincoln Highway, over the Turtle Creek Valley near to where it joins the Monongahela River Valley east of Pittsburgh. The reinforced concrete open-s ...
, East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA * George Westinghouse, Jr., Birthplace and Boyhood Home, Central Bridge, New York, USA *
Westinghouse Park Westinghouse Park is a city-block sized municipal park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The park land is the former estate of George Westinghouse, an American entrepreneur and engineer, and his wife Marguerite. With an area of about 10 acres, it w ...
, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA * Westinghouse Air Brake Company General Office Building, Wilmerding, Pennsylvania, USA *
George Westinghouse Jones House George Westinghouse Jones House, also known by the Welsh name of Caermarthen, is a historic home located in the Town of Niskayuna in Schenectady County, New York. It was built about 1900 and designed by the architectural firm of Rutan & Russel ...
, Niskayuna, New York, USA, home of a cousin and associate of George Westinghouse


Media

*'' Westinghouse Studio One'', an American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 **
List of Westinghouse Studio One episodes '' Studio One'' is an American anthology drama television series that was adapted to from a radio series. It was created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle for CBS CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS, the abbreviatio ...
** Twelve Angry Men (''Westinghouse Studio One''), a teleplay by the studio *'' Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse'', American television series which aired from 1958 to 1960 *The Westinghouse Sign, a large, animated, electric sign located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA * Westinghouse Works, 1904, a collection of short films of various Westinghouse manufacturing plants


People

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George Westinghouse George Westinghouse Jr. (October 6, 1846 – March 12, 1914) was an American entrepreneur and engineer based in Pennsylvania who created the railway air brake and was a pioneer of the electrical industry, receiving his first patent at the age ...
(1846–1914), the founder of Westinghouse Electric Corporation


Products

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List of Westinghouse locomotives Locomotives built or sold by the Westinghouse Electric Company Westinghouse's transportation division (rail equipment) was founded 1894 and sold to AEG 1988, later merged into Adtranz and Bombardier. Production of locomotives ended after the e ...
*Westinghouse Electric Company's AP1000, the first Generation III+ reactor to receive final design approval from the U.S. * Westinghouse Farm Engine, a small, vertical boilered farm engine made by George Westinghouse from 1886 to 1917 * NZR RM class Westinghouse railcar, an experimental and inaugural railcar built in New Zealand in 1914


Science

* Westinghouse effect, a variant of the social-scientific observer's paradox *
Westinghouse Science Talent Search Westinghouse may refer to: Businesses Current companies *Westinghouse Electric Corporation, the company that manages the Westinghouse brand, with licensees: ** Westinghouse Electric Company, providing nuclear power-related services **Westingho ...
, now called Intel Science Talent Search, an American science competition for high school students * Westinghouse transistron, an early bipolar transistor invented in France at "Compagnie des Freins et Signaux Westinghouse" by the German scientists Mataré and Welker


Other uses

* Westinghouse High School (disambiguation) * George Westinghouse Award (disambiguation) {{disambiguation