34-545: Westinghouse may refer to: Businesses [ edit ] Current companies [ edit ] 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
68-418: A cousin and associate of George Westinghouse Media [ edit ] 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 ,
102-411: A distance, with the train roaring by. Juror #5 changes his vote to not guilty. The vote is now 9–3. Juror #8 next questions how the old man who's had a stroke and walks with two canes could have gotten up out of bed and run through his apartment to see the defendant running down the stairs. The old man testified this happened only 15 seconds after the murder. Juror #3 notes the old man was confused during
136-419: A judge instructs the jury in a murder case that their verdict must be unanimous. In the jury room, an initial vote is 11 to 1 in favor of guilty. Juror #8 ( Robert Cummings ) is the holdout voting not guilty. Juror #3 ( Franchot Tone ) criticizes Juror #8 as being "out in left field." They go once around the table, each juror having an opportunity to express his point of view. Juror #10 ( Edward Arnold ) focuses on
170-459: A knife fight, and says they are typically used with an underhand motion, but the wound here was from an overhand motion. Juror #7 changes his vote out of boredom of all the discussion. Juror #11 is disappointed and calls him out for playing with the boy’s life and his lazy reasoning. He demands the #7 take it seriously and provide a legitimate vote and reasoning for it. Another vote is taken, and it's 9–3 in favor of acquittal. Jurors 3, 4 and 10 are now
204-470: A large, animated, electric sign located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Westinghouse Works, 1904 , a collection of short films of various Westinghouse manufacturing plants People [ edit ] George Westinghouse (1846–1914), the founder of Westinghouse Electric Corporation Products [ edit ] List of Westinghouse locomotives Westinghouse Electric Company's AP1000 ,
238-761: 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 [ edit ] 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
272-544: A subsidiary of Metropolitan-Vickers in 1919 and the Italian Westinghouse factory was taken over by Tecnomasio in 1921. Twelve Angry Men (Westinghouse Studio One) " Twelve Angry Men " is a 1954 teleplay directed by Franklin J. Schaffner and written by Reginald Rose for the American anthology television series Studio One . It follows the titular twelve members of a jury as they deliberate
306-470: A supposedly clear-cut murder trial, and details the tension among them when one juror argues that the defendant might not be guilty. Initially staged as a CBS live production on September 20, 1954, the drama was later rewritten for the stage in 1955 under the same title , and as a feature film in 1957 titled 12 Angry Men . The episode garnered three Emmy Awards for writer Rose, director Schaffner, and Robert Cummings as Best Actor. The program opens as
340-515: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages 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 "Westinghouse Electric Corporation" in 1945. Through
374-547: The 1970s and 80s combined with large cash balances led the company to enter the financial services business. Their focus was on mortgages , which suffered significant losses in the late 1980s. In 1992 they announced a major restructuring and the liquidation of their credit operations. In 1995, in a major change of direction, the company acquired the CBS television network and renamed itself CBS Corporation . Most of its remaining industrial businesses were sold off at this time. CBS Corp
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#1732764816315408-877: 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 ,
442-611: 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 [ edit ] Westinghouse High School (disambiguation) George Westinghouse Award (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
476-530: The Westinghouse name, from 2002 to 2008 Siemens Energy Sector , the acquired non-nuclear energy divisions of Westinghouse Electric Former companies and divisions [ edit ] 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
510-562: The acts. The production was staged in New York City and aired live on September 20, 1954, as the first episode in the seventh season of the program, Studio One . A kinescope recording was made for rebroadcast later on the west coast. It was written by Reginald Rose especially for Studio One . Felix Jackson was the producer and Franklin Schaffner the director. Wes Laws was the set decorator, and Willard Levitas provided
544-406: The alleged murder weapon, a switchblade, to be brought into the jury room. Juror #4 points out that the shopkeeper where the defendant purchased the knife testified that it was the only one he had in stock and that it is a very strange knife. When the knife is brought into the jury room, Juror #8 pulls an identical knife from his pocket, and reveals he bought one from a junk shop around the corner from
578-440: The company over fifteen billion dollars. To recoup its costs, Westinghouse sold many other operations, including its defense electronics division, its metering and load control division (which was sold to ABB ), its residential security division, the office furniture company Knoll , and Thermo King . Westinghouse purchased CBS Inc. in 1994 for $ 5.4 billion. Westinghouse Electric Corporation changed its name to and became
612-569: The corporation, the board of directors appointed outside management in the form of CEO Michael H. Jordan , who brought in numerous consultants to help re-engineer the company in order to realize the potential that they saw in the broadcasting industry. Westinghouse reduced the workforce in many of its traditional industrial operations and made further acquisitions in broadcasting to add to its already substantial Group W network, including Infinity Broadcasting , TNN , CMT , American Radio Systems , and rights to NFL broadcasting. These investments cost
646-491: The defendant's house, suggesting it is less "strange" than what the shopkeeper thought. Juror #8 asks for a secret ballot. If there are still 11 guilty votes, Juror #8 will go along. But if anyone votes not guilty, they will stay and talk it out. The votes are handed in. The Foreman then reads the votes to everyone and, to their surprise, finds that another juror voted “not guilty”. There are now only 10 guilty votes. Juror #10 demands to know who it was, & Juror #3 believes it
680-541: The early and mid-20th century, Westinghouse Electric was a powerhouse in heavy industry, electrical production and distribution, consumer electronics, home appliances and a wide variety of other products. They were a major supplier of generators and steam turbines for most of their history, and was also a major player in the field of nuclear power , starting with the Westinghouse Atom Smasher in 1937. A series of downturns and management missteps in
714-527: 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 [ edit ] Westinghouse effect , a variant of the social-scientific observer's paradox Westinghouse Science Talent Search , now called
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#1732764816315748-576: The generation, transmission, and use of electricity. In addition to George Westinghouse, early engineers working for the company included Frank Conrad , Benjamin Garver Lamme , Bertha Lamme (first woman mechanical engineer in the United States), Oliver B. Shallenberger , William Stanley , Nikola Tesla , Stephen Timoshenko , and Vladimir Zworykin . Early on, Westinghouse was a rival to Thomas Edison 's electric company. In 1892, Edison
782-412: The holdouts. Juror #10 focuses on race, insisting the defendant must be guilty because, among other assumptions, "There isn't one of them that's got any good in them." The other jurors react in shock at Juror #10's tirade, and Juror #4 threatens Juror #10 to not speak again for the rest of the deliberation. Juror #4 is still persuaded by the old lady who said she saw the defendant stab his father. One of
816-486: The jurors recalls that the old lady wore glasses. She wouldn't have been wearing her glasses in bed, which is where she said she was, tossing and turning. Juror #8 says that all the old lady could have seen, without her glasses and through the train windows, was a blur. Juror #3 is left as the only guilty vote, but he finally gives in. The defendant is found not guilty. The cast included performances by: Betty Furness presents Westinghouse appliances in breaks after each of
850-429: The neighbor who testified that she saw the defendant stab his father. Juror #7 ( Paul Hartman ) focuses on the defendant's record – reform school at age 15 for stealing a car, arrested for knife fighting, and he comes from slums that are breeding grounds for criminals. Juror #5 ( Lee Phillips ) takes offense and points out that he's lived in a slum his whole life – "maybe it still smells on me." Juror #8 asks for
884-593: The original CBS Corporation in 1997. Also in 1997, the Power Generation Business Unit, headquartered in Orlando, Florida , was sold to Siemens AG of Germany. A year later, CBS sold all of its commercial nuclear power businesses to British Nuclear Fuels Limited (BNFL). In connection with that sale, certain rights to use the Westinghouse trademarks were granted to the newly formed BNFL subsidiary, Westinghouse Electric Company . That company
918-421: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Westinghouse . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Westinghouse&oldid=1256985274 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
952-423: The trial and suggests he may not have been precise when he stated it was 15 seconds. Juror #3 and the others pause, reacting to the import of Juror #3's question. Juror #8 performs a reenactment to show that the old man could not have gotten up and walked that distance in 15 seconds. Juror #2 times him with a watch and reveals the reenactment took 41 seconds. #8 then tells everyone that the old man must have assumed it
986-430: Was #5 and berates him for it. Juror #9 ( Joseph Sweeney ) defends him and admits that he was the one who changed his vote. Juror #8 focuses on the noise from the elevated train that passed by as the murder took place. One of the witnesses, an old man, claimed that he heard the defendant say, "I'm going to kill you," and then heard the body drop one second later. He questions how the witness could have heard these things, at
1020-601: Was acquired by Viacom in 1999, a merger completed in April 2000. The CBS Corporation name was later reused for one of the two companies resulting from the split of Viacom in 2005. One of the few remaining original lines of business to survive this process was the nuclear power division, which was sold to BNFL in 1999 and re-formed as Westinghouse Electric Company . The Westinghouse trademarks are owned by Westinghouse Electric Corporation, and were previously part of Westinghouse Licensing Corporation . Westinghouse Electric
1054-638: Was founded by George Westinghouse in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , on January 8, 1886. Building on the advancement of AC technology in Europe, the firm became active in developing alternating current (AC) electric infrastructure throughout the United States. The company's largest factories were located in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania , Lester, Pennsylvania and Hamilton, Ontario, where they made turbines , generators, motors, and switch gear for
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1088-586: Was merged with Westinghouse's chief AC rival, the Thomson-Houston Electric Company , making an even bigger competitor, General Electric . Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company changed its name to Westinghouse Electric Corporation in 1945. In 1990, Westinghouse experienced a serious setback when the corporation lost over one billion dollars due to bad high-risk, high-fee, high-interest loans made by its Westinghouse Credit Corporation lending arm. In an attempt to revitalize
1122-693: Was sold to Toshiba in 2006. During the 20th century, Westinghouse engineers and scientists were granted more than 28,000 U.S. patents, the third most of any company. There have been a number of Westinghouse-related environmental incidents in the US. Below is a short list of these. All of these are chemical pollution incidents; none of them involve nuclear reactors or nuclear pollution. Westinghouse established subsidiary companies in several countries including British Westinghouse and Società Italiana Westinghouse in Vado Ligure , Italy. British Westinghouse became
1156-410: Was the defendant as soon as he heard footsteps before opening the door. Juror #3 complains about Juror #8's dishonesty and insists the defendant must face punishment. When Juror #8 calls Juror #3 a sadist, Juror #3 lunges and threatens to kill him. A new vote is taken. It is now 6–6. Juror #2 ( John Beal ) is troubled by the angle of the stab wound. Juror #5 has knowledge about switch blades, having seen
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