22-589: (Redirected from Westinghouse Company ) 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
44-418: 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 ,
66-470: 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 ,
88-761: 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
110-499: A subsidiary of Metropolitan-Vickers in 1919 and the Italian Westinghouse factory was taken over by Tecnomasio in 1921. 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 . It premiered on November 7, 1948, and ended on September 29, 1958, with
132-424: A total of 467 episodes over the course of 10 seasons. Terrorized by an intruder, a woman alone discovers a dead body. After the death of a loved one, someone returns from South America to investigate. A ruthless landowner is terrorizing a small Western town, aided by his hired killers and the cowardice of the local gentry. A possessive mother controls her two sons. A Navy crew must organize themselves before
154-515: 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
176-547: 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
198-877: 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 ,
220-611: 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
242-530: 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
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#1732781055334264-440: 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
286-569: 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
308-541: 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
330-527: 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
352-576: 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
374-593: 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
396-421: 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
418-601: 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
440-638: 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
462-586: 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
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#1732781055334484-693: 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
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