Westinghouse Electric Corporation

The Westinghouse Electric Company is an organization founded by George Westinghouse in 1886. George Westinghouse had previously founded the Westinghouse Air Brake Company[?]. Westinghouse Electric received the first patent for alternating-current transmission, and unveiled the technology for lighting in Great Barrington, Massachusetts[?]. The company pioneered long-distance power transmission and high-voltage transmission. In addition to George Westinghouse, engineers working for the company include William Stanley[?], Nikola Tesla and Oliver Schallenberger[?]. It was historically the rival to General Electric.

Timeline of company evolution

• 1889 renamed the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company
• 1914 - acquired Copeman Electric Stove Company[?] and entered the home appliance market, (sold in 1974 to White Consolidated Industries[?]
• 1920s - entered the broadcasting industry, with stations like KDKA[?] in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• 1930s - entered the nuclear age with an industrial atom smasher[?].
• 1940s - entered aviation with airborne radar (defense electronics sold 1996) and ground based airport lighting.
• 1945 - renamed the Westinghouse Electric Corporation.
• 1950s - entered consumer finance with Westinghouse Credit Corporation[?]
• 1960s - acquires ThermoKing[?], begins automated mass transit (sold 1988)
• 1980s - acquires cable television operator TelePrompter[?] (sold 1985) and robot maker Unimation[?]
• 1995 - buys CBS
• 1996 -buys Infinity Broadcasting[?]
• 1997 - sells non-broadcast operations, renamed CBS
• 1999 - BNFL[?] a UK nuclear company acquires CBS nuclear power business and takes the name Westinghouse Electric Company

Other companies, including a lighting company (formerly Angelo Brothers) and an appliance company White-Westinghouse[?], license or use the Westinghouse name.

Logo (designed by Paul Rand)

External links

• [Westinghouse Electric Company (http://www.westinghouse.com)]
• [Westinghouse Lighting Corporation (http://www.westinghouselightbulbs.com)]
• [White-Westinghouse Appliances (http://www.frigidaire.com)]