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Current companies

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Westinghouse Electric Corporation The Westinghouse Electric Corporation was an American manufacturing company founded in 1886 by George Westinghouse and headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was originally named "Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company" and was ...
, the company that manages the Westinghouse brand, with licensees: **
Westinghouse Electric Company Westinghouse Electric Company LLC is an American nuclear power company formed in 1999 from the nuclear power division of the original Westinghouse Electric Corporation. It offers nuclear products and services to utilities internationally, includ ...
, 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

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Westinghouse Electric Corporation The Westinghouse Electric Corporation was an American manufacturing company founded in 1886 by George Westinghouse and headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was originally named "Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company" and was ...
, 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 syndi ...
(Group W), now integrated into CBS Broadcasting, Inc. **
White-Westinghouse White-Westinghouse is an American home appliance brand used under license by trademark owner Westinghouse Licensing Corporation. It was created in 1975 when White Consolidated Industries bought the Westinghouse Electric Corporation's major appli ...
, 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, US-based Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company. British Westinghouse would become a subsidiary of Metropolitan-Vickers in 1919; and after Metr ...
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Westinghouse Air Brake Company The Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation (WABCO) was an American company founded on September 28, 1869 by George Westinghouse in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Earlier in the year he had invented the railway air brake in New York state. A ...
, 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 Knorr-Bremse AG is a German manufacturer of braking systems for rail and commercial vehicles that has operated since 1905. Other products in the company's portfolio include intelligent door systems, control components, air conditioning system ...
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Westinghouse Combustion Turbine Systems Division The Westinghouse Combustion Turbine Systems Division (CTSD), part of Westinghouse Electric (1886), Westinghouse Electric Corporation's Westinghouse Power Generation group, was originally located, along with the Steam Turbine Division (STD), in a ma ...
, 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 gas turbine engines for aircraft propulsion under contract to the US Navy Bureau o ...
, 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 Westinghouse Rail Systems Ltd (formerly ''Westinghouse Signals Ltd'') was a British supplier of railway signalling and control equipment to the rail industry worldwide. Its head office was in Chippenham, Wiltshire, where it manufactured a varie ...
, 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 A transistor is a semiconductor device with at least three terminals for connection to an electric circuit. In the common case, the third terminal controls the flow of current between the other two terminals. This can be used for amplification, ...


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 ope ...
, 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 wa ...
, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA *
Westinghouse Air Brake Company General Office Building The Westinghouse Air Brake Company General Office Building (known locally as the Castle or Library Hall) in Wilmerding, Pennsylvania is a building from 1890. It was listed on the Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation in 1975, National Re ...
, 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 & Russe ...
, Niskayuna, New York, USA, home of a cousin and associate of George Westinghouse


Media

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Westinghouse Studio One ''Studio One'' is an American anthology drama television series that was adapted from a radio series. It was created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. It premiered on November 7, 1948, and ended on Se ...
'', an American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 **
List of Westinghouse Studio One episodes '' Studio One'' is an American anthology drama television series adapted from a radio series. It was created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle for CBS CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS (an abbreviation of its ori ...
** Twelve Angry Men (''Westinghouse Studio One''), a teleplay by the studio *''
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse ''Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse'' is an American television anthology series produced by Desilu Productions. The show ran on the Columbia Broadcasting System between 1958 and 1960. Three of its 48 episodes served as pilots for the 1950s televis ...
'', 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 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 bei ...
(1846–1914), the founder of Westinghouse Electric Corporation


Products

* List of Westinghouse locomotives *Westinghouse Electric Company's
AP1000 The AP1000 is a nuclear power plant designed and sold by Westinghouse Electric Company. The plant is a pressurized water reactor with improved use of passive nuclear safety and many design features intended to lower its capital cost and improve ...
, the first Generation III+ reactor to receive final design approval from the U.S. *
Westinghouse Farm Engine A Westinghouse Farm Engine from 1890 The Westinghouse Farm Engine was a small, vertical-boiler steam engine built by the Westinghouse Company that emerged in the late 19th century. In the transition from horses to machinery, small portable engines ...
, 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 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

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Westinghouse High School (disambiguation) Westinghouse High School can refer to: * Westinghouse High School (Pittsburgh), Pittsburgh Public Schools, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania * George Westinghouse Career and Technical Education High School, New York City Department of Education, Brooklyn, ...
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George Westinghouse Award (disambiguation) The George Westinghouse Award may refer to: * George Westinghouse Medal given by the American Society for Mechanical Engineering * George Westinghouse Award (ASEE) given by the American Society for Engineering Education * Intel Science Talent Searc ...
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