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
** Westinghouse Electronics, 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
* Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation, a transport technology company commonly known as Wabtec
* Siemens Energy Sector, the acquired non-nuclear energy divisions of Westinghouse Electric

Former companies and divisions

*Westinghouse Electric Corporation, renamed CBS Corporation in 1997
**Westinghouse Broadcasting (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, 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, 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

* George Westinghouse Bridge, East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
* George Westinghouse, Jr., Birthplace and Boyhood Home, Central Bridge, New York, USA
* Westinghouse Park, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
* Westinghouse Air Brake Company General Office Building, Wilmerding, Pennsylvania, USA
* George Westinghouse Jones House, 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
** 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

*George Westinghouse (1846–1914), the founder of Westinghouse Electric Corporation

Products

* List of Westinghouse locomotives
*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, now called the Regeneron 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)

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