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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. Russell Hobbs, Inc. (formerly Salton, Inc.), was an American company based in Florida which manufactured home appliances, most notably the George Foreman grill and Russell Hobbs appliances. In June 2010, Russell Hobbs, Inc. was taken over by ...
, licensed to make small appliances such as vacuum cleaners under the Westinghouse name, from 2002 to 2008 *
Siemens Energy Sector The Siemens Energy Sector was one of the four sectors of German industrial conglomerate Siemens. Founded on January 1, 2009, it generated and delivered power from numerous sources including the extraction, conversion and transport of oil and natu ...
, 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 White-Westinghouse is an American home appliance brand currently used under license by trademark owner Westinghouse Licensing Corporation. It was created in 1975 when White Consolidated Industries bought the Westinghouse Electric Corporation's ma ...
, acquired by Electrolux in 1986 **
Westinghouse Electronic Systems Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems (NGES) was a business segment of Northrop Grumman from 1996 to 2015 until a reorganization on January 1, 2016 merged other Northrop Grumman businesses into NGES to form a new segment called Mission Systems. NG ...
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 Metr ...
, 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 Navy ...
, maker of early turbojet engines (1945–1955) *
Westinghouse Astronuclear Laboratory The Westinghouse Astronuclear Laboratory (WANL) was a division of Westinghouse Electric Corporation. Established in 1959 to develop nuclear space propulsion technologies for the government, the lab was located, for most of its history, in the pa ...
, late 1950s; Large, Pennsylvania; nuclear space propulsion technologies *
Westinghouse Advanced Energy Systems Division Westinghouse Advanced Energy Systems Division (AESD) was a research and development facility for nonconventional renewable energy systems, in the small town of Large in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania SA The site is on the east side of Pa. Rte. 51 ...
, 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 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, a ...


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 The Lincoln Highway is the first transcontinental highway in the United States and one of the first highways designed expressl ...
, 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 was ...
, 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 & Russell. ...
, 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 The Westinghouse Sign was the first computer-controlled sign in the United States. Located in Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the large animated display advertised the Westinghouse Electric (1886), Westinghouse Electric Company, and was best ...
, a large, animated, electric sign located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA *
Westinghouse Works, 1904 ''Westinghouse Works, 1904'' is a collection of American short silent films, each averaging about three minutes in length. The films were taken from April 18, 1904 to May 16, 1904 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and document various Westinghouse ma ...
, 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 of ...
(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 **Westinghou ...
, now called Intel Science Talent Search, an American science competition for high school students *
Westinghouse transistron 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, a ...
, 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