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2 unusual facts about Westinghouse


Nim

At the 1940 New York World's Fair Westinghouse displayed a machine, the Nimatron, that played Nim.

O. S. Nock

Oswald Stevens Nock (1905–1994), nicknamed Ossie, was a British railway signal engineer and senior manager at the Westinghouse company; he is well known for his prodigious output of popularist publications on railway subjects, including over 100 books, as well as a large number of more technical works on locomotive performance.


1977–78 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team

During his senior year at Westinghouse, Johnson, along with teammate Mark Aguirre, became part of a team that went 29-0, losing only in the Public League Final to Wendell Phillips.

AGM-45 Shrike

The main target was a Westinghouse AN/TPS-43 long range 3D radar that the Argentine Air Force deployed during April to guard the Falklands' surrounded airspace.

Airship Industries Skyship 600

Airship Industries collapsed in 1990, and its assets were taken over by Westinghouse.

Bay Area Rapid Transit

The HVAC system on the Rohr BART cars before rehabilitation were built by Thermo King, when it was a subsidiary of Westinghouse; it is now a subsidiary of Ingersoll Rand.

Bettis Field

Sold to Westinghouse in January 1949, the field was closed and redeveloped, becoming the Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory.

Chris Rathaus

From Detroit, Rathaus moved to Pittsburgh to become production director and assistant program director at Westinghouse’s KDKA Pittsburgh.

Cos Cob Power Station

The "New Haven" chose A.C. electrification as proposed by Baldwin-Westinghouse, with locomotives which could operate on the third-rail D.C. system within city limits, and the A.C. system on the main line.

Crewe North Junction signal box

Crewe North Junction signal box is signal box with a Westinghouse All Electric Style 'L' lever frame which was commissioned, along with Crewe South Junction signal box (which also had a Westinghouse Style 'L' frame), on 29 March 1940 as part of a resignalling project at Crewe railway station.

Durabrand

Durabrand does have some "company rivals," despite the low prices, their products are matched up between other in-house brands like Wal-Mart's iLo brand (considered as an upmarket brand, offers MP3 digital audio players and plasma video displays), Target's TruTech brand; and to an extent, K-Mart's former Curtis Mathes/White-Westinghouse (in the mid-to-late 1990s) now Home Essentials brand.

Electric power system

One of Westinghouse's engineers, William Stanley, recognised the problem with connecting transformers in series as opposed to parallel and also realised that making the iron core of a transformer a fully enclosed loop would improve the voltage regulation of the secondary winding.

Fallout and Follow Me

It presents companies such as Rio Tinto, Westinghouse and General Electric as characters as they go through several key moments in the history of uranium mining in Australia and other countries, such as the swindling of Australian, Canadian and South African governments in order to mine uranium, the 1961 court martial, and the introduction of the Ranger Uranium Mine enquiry report.

Frank Carlucci

He also has business interests in the following companies: General Dynamics, Westinghouse, Ashland Oil, Neurogen, CB Commercial Real Estate, Nortel, BDM International, Quaker Oats, and Kaman.

GE Power Conversion

In 1989 parts of the British General Electric Company plc merged with parts of Compagnie Générale d'Electricité (now Alcatel-Lucent) forming CEGELEC (part of GEC Alsthom), in the same year, a subsidiary of the German Allgemeine Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft (AEG) had merged with the American Westinghouse Drive Systems.

Geraldine Doyle

That image — re-imagined by graphic artist J. Howard Miller while working for the Westinghouse Company's War Production Coordinating Committee — may have become the basis for the poster Miller created during a Westinghouse anti-absenteeism and anti-strike campaign.

Harlan James Smith

While attending Wheeling High School he was named first runner up in the "Westinghouse National Science Talent Search".

Harold Zirin

While attending Bassick High School, Zirin's home-built telescope won him a Westinghouse Prize, a Pepsi-Cola Scholarship, and scholarships to Harvard University as class of 1946 Valedictorian.

IEEE Lamme Medal

The medal was named in recognition of Benjamin G. Lamme, Westinghouse' chief engineer, who amongst others was responsible for the construction of the Niagara Falls generators.

Igor Ansoff

He has consulted with hundreds of multinational corporations including, Philips, General Electric, Gulf, IBM, Sterling and Westinghouse.

Jeumont

They have their origins in the Atelier de Construction Electrique du Nord et de l’Est (ACENE), which became part of the EMPAIN group under the name Forges et Ateliers de Construction Electriques de Jeumont (FACEJ) in 1921, merged with Schneider Westinghouse in 1964 and in 1993 Jeumont Industrie became part of the Framatome group.

John G. Inglis

He left Westinghouse to become Electrical Engineer for the Co-operative Transit Company in Wheeling, West Virginia.

Knorr-Bremse

In 2000, it purchased British manufacturer, Westinghouse Brakes (formerly the brakes division of Westinghouse Brake and Signal Company Ltd), from Invensys, and subsequently moved its operations from Chippenham to the nearby English town of Melksham.

Levy County, Florida

On April 7, 2008, Progress Energy Florida of St. Petersburg announced it had authorized Shaw and Westinghouse to purchase long-lead-time materials for up to two AP1000 nuclear reactors for its Levy County plant, a greenfield plant in Levy County, producing about 1,100 MW each.

Mellon Financial

Alcoa, Gulf Oil (now Chevron-Texaco), Westinghouse (now CBS Corporation and Siemens) and Rockwell, all were directly founded and managed by the bank.

Nuclear Liability Act

Although there is no international obligation for such a bill, in order to attract the US companies involved in nuclear commerce such as General Electric and Westinghouse, it is necessary to introduce a liability bill which would help these private companies in getting insurance cover in their home state.

Paul Rand

Paul Rand (August 15, 1914 – November 26, 1996) was an American art director and graphic designer, best known for his corporate logo designs, including the logos for IBM, UPS, Enron, Morningstar, Inc., Westinghouse, ABC, and Steve Jobs's NeXT.

Pittsburgh Associates

The Associates were spearheaded by popular Pittsburgh Mayor Richard S. Caliguiri and some prominent corporate leaders of such companies as Westinghouse, PPG, United States Steel, PNC, Mellon Financial, Carnegie Mellon University and Ryan Homes.

Stanley Bing

It was at this point that Bing, who had been writing in secret within a large multinational corporation, revealed his existence to his colleagues at Westinghouse, who had heretofore known him only by his given name.

Stanton T. Friedman

Friedman was employed for 14 years as a nuclear physicist for such companies as General Electric (1956–1959), Aerojet General Nucleonics (1959–1963), General Motors (1963–1966), Westinghouse (1966–1968), TRW Systems (1969–1970), and McDonnell Douglas, where he worked on advanced, classified programs on nuclear aircraft, fission and fusion rockets, and compact nuclear power plants for space applications.

Strathfield railway station

Signalling at Strathfield is controlled by an entrance-exit (NX) route control panel with an early automatic route setting (ARS) system, which was manufactured by Westinghouse in the United Kingdom.

The 1926-vintage power box, which had a Westinghouse miniature lever frame, still stands to the west end of platform 8.

Talent Search

Intel Science Talent Search, formerly known as Westinghouse Science Talent Search, a research-based science competition in the United States for high school students

The Secret of Nikola Tesla

The other Americans in the cast are character actors Strother Martin (who died six weeks before the film's September 12, 1980 English-language premiere at the Toronto Film Festival) and Dennis Patrick as Westinghouse and Edison, respectively.

Univision Radio

In 1984 the company sold KQXT in San Antonio to Westinghouse's Group W Broadcasting and purchased KLAT (AM) in Houston, Texas from Marcos Rodriguez, Sr. and Marcos A. Rodriguez.

Voicemail

In the early 1980s, VMX sold voice messaging systems to several large corporations, such as 3M, Kodak, American Express, Intel, Hoffmann–La Roche, Corning Glass, Arco, Shell Canada and Westinghouse.

WABCO

WABCO Automotive Products or WABCO Holdings, Inc. - companies also created from the former Westinghouse Air Brake Company

WABCO Vehicle Control Systems - a part of the former Westinghouse Air Brake Company

Wabtec

Wabtec Corporation (derived from Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation) is an American company formed by the merger of the Westinghouse Air Brake Company (WABCO) and MotivePower Industries Corporation in 1999.

Westinghouse Electric Company

Controlled by the Toshiba Group, Westinghouse's world headquarters is located in Cranberry Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania, United States.

The company Westinghouse Electrique France is now located in Orsay and Marseille.

Westinghouse H840CK15

The Westinghouse H840CK15 was the first consumer all-electronic color television set sold in the USA in March 1954, beating the RCA Victor CT-100 to market by only a few weeks.

Westinghouse Lamp Plant

The population boom was contributed by the manufacturing jobs at the Westinghouse Lamp Plant along with other manufacturing plants such as General Electric, Lehn and Fink and Schering during the war time.

Westinghouse Rail Systems

The £850 Million contract was issued to Westinghouse by Metronet, and was for the resignalling of eight of the London Underground lines.

Wingfoot Express

His calculations indicated that the readily available surplus Westinghouse J46 jet engines would have more than enough power to drive the vehicle to over 400 miles per hour (640 km/h).


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