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The Drawing Room and Compartment in the Sleeping Car of the Los Angeles Ltd., c.1905. (Bizarre Los Angeles)

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Westinghouse - Chapter 16 - Battle of the Currents

The War of The Currents reaches its peak and Edison works hard against Westinghouse.

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Westinghouse - Chapter 24 - Head in the Stars

He never stopped inventing. New ideas were found even upon his death.

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Westinghouse - Chapter 18 - Lights at the Fair

The Chicago World’s Fair attracted 28 million visitors. They were wowed by Westinghouse.

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Westinghouse - Chapter 20 - The Westinghouse Engineers

George Westinghouse’s management style was a big draw to the best and the brightest.

Westinghouse: Chapter 2 - Early Life

As a child George Westinghouse was bored with school, but loved to work in his dad’s shop.

Westinghouse - Chapter 3 - Civil War Service

At 19, George Westinghouse was awarded his first patent for a rotary steam engine.

Westinghouse: Chapter 1 - Introduction

“…of all the people Tesla met, he had the highest regard for George Westinghouse.” See why.

Westinghouse - Chapter 21 - Union Switch and Signal

How to prevent trains from colliding? George Westinghouse had an invention for that!

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William Kemmler, premier homme à être exécuté sur la chaise électrique, en 1891, pour avoir assassiné sa concubine à l'aide d'une hache eures du matin à la Prison d'Auburn. Ses avocats firent appel, arguant du fait que l'électrocution était une punition atroce et inhabituelle ; George Westinghouse, un de ceux qui soutenaient l'usage du courant alternatif comme norme pour la distribution d'énergie, appuya leur appel, qui fut cependant rejeté en partie parce que Thomas Edison approuva la ....

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NIAGARA FALLS HYDRO-ELECTRIC power plant, the largest of its time. One of the 5000-horsepower Niagara Falls units built by Westinghouse.

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Mazda was a trademarked name registered by General Electric in 1909 for incandescent light bulbs. The name was used from 1909 through 1945 in the United States by General Electric and Westinghouse. Mazda brand light bulbs were made for decades after 1945 outside the USA. The company chose the name due to its association with Ahura Mazda, the transcendental and universal God of Zoroastrianism whose name means light of wisdom (Ahura = light, Mazda = wisdom) in the Avestan language.