In 1904, a newspaper called Westinghouse A Big Man With a Hundred Thousand Horsepower Inside, The genius of the age, a genius of the age with thunderous power in his chest. I sorted out his chronology and explained it briefly. some background information
1846
On October 6, George Westinghouse was born.
1864
Served in the Navy.
1865
George Westinghouse receives his first patent for the "rotary steam engine"
1869
George Westinghouse licenses the patent for the Air Brake (Westinghouse name), Westinghouse serves as the Westinghouse Air Brake Company, which begins a 9-hour day, 55-hour work week system (*it was a fairly humanized working system at the time, mentioned in the movie Battle of Electricity).
* Later, Westinghouse Air Brake Company changed its name to Wabtec Corporation (Westinghouse Brake). In 2014, Wabtec acquired Faiveley, a French railway equipment manufacturer, and in 2019, it acquired GE Transportations, the transportation division of old rival General Electric GE. Merger of old stores. Wabtec is still headquartered in Pittsburgh and is one of the largest manufacturers of railway equipment in the world. Wabtec's engineer culture: Thinking about what others can't think, creating what others can't make, providing meaningful output Imagining things others don't, Building things others can't, Delivering outcomes that matter.
*Wabtec Profile: https://www.wabteccorp.com/sites/default/files/2019-02/Wabtec%20Company%20Overview_1.pdf
1867
Married Marguerite Walter.
1871
Westinghouse Pneumatic Brake Company began to implement half-day work on Saturdays.
1872
Invention of the automatic air brake.
1878
The first air brake company outside the United States opens in Sevran, France.
1881
The Westinghouse Machine Company was established (mainly producing steam engines and steam turbines, etc.); the Westinghouse Brake Company was established in London.
1882
Form Union Switch and Signal Company.
1884
Westinghouse Brake Company established Hannover, Germany.
1886
Westinghouse Electric Company is established.
*Westinghouse Electric has been a global leader in power generation equipment, power transmission and distribution, gas turbines, electronics, nuclear reactors and other fields in the following 100 years, but now the main body has evolved into CBS Media Group, and successively The industrial sector is sold. For example, the gas turbine business is sold to Siemens and then resold to Ansaldo. At present, among the top four gas turbines in the world, Siemens, Mitsubishi-Hitachi, and Andaldo all have Westinghouse’s technical origins, and only GE has not used it; Westinghouse's Electronics Division was the inventor of MEMS and the earliest and largest radar supplier in the United States, and was later sold to Northrop Grumman; Westinghouse's last Miao nuclear power division was bankrupt and reorganized in 2017 (not to cease operations). ), Westinghouse's three-generation AP1000 nuclear power and military reactors (Seawolf-class S6W, Nimitz-class A4W are still the world's advanced reactors). After that, Westinghouse Electric has changed its name to CBS Media. In 2019, it merged with Viacom to form Viacom-CBS. It is now one of the largest media groups in the world. It competes with Disney and Comcast in the United States. , MTV Channel are their works or subsidiaries.
1889
Construction of the air brake plant in Wilmerding begins.
1890
Westinghouse begins to manufacture electric motors for electric locomotives.
1893
Westinghouse provides lighting for the Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
(*In the light bulb war, the patent lawsuit between Westinghouse and Edison was ranked No. 1 in the top ten patent wars in history by Dorsey & Whitney LLP in 2018, while Westinghouse attorney Paul Drennan Cravath is an American modern lawyer. The founder of the system, Cravath, who was in his early 20s, formed a team to fight this lawsuit. This team has developed into today's Cravath law firm.
*Story about the invention of the light bulb:
https://blog.bricsys.com/who-invented-the-light-bulb/
1895
Westinghouse's main production facility is completed in East Pittsburgh.
1896
Westinghouse built a hydroelectric power station in Niagara Falls, using a hydroelectric generator manufactured by Westinghouse.
*Although the generator is a Westinghouse product, it is engraved with the huge Tesla name and the patent number it holds, which is consistent with the Chicago Exposition scene in the film. Tesla once wrote: Westinghouse, In my opinion, the only person in the world who can make my AC system defeat prejudice and power in this situation, he is one of the most noble people in the world, and America should be proud of him, He had great personality. "George Westinghouse was, in my opinion, the only man on this globe who could take my alternating-current system under the circumstances then existing and win the battle against prejudice and money power," Tesla wrote. " He was one of the world's true noblemen, of whom America may well be proud and to whom humanity owes an immense debt of gratitude." So the character charm of Westinghouse in the film is really restored.
1898
Westinghouse, Russia, was established in St. Petersburg.
1899
Westinghouse UK is established in London with a factory in Manchester.
1901
Westinghouse Paris and Le Havre, Freinville factories were established, Westinghouse Germany was established in Berlin.
1903
Westinghouse Canada was established. Westinghouse Relief Department established (disability relief, medical services)
1904
The American Mutoscope & Biograph Co. Film Company (later merged with Edison Film Company in 1907 to become the American Film Patent Company) shot a series of short films for the Westinghouse Factory (there are relevant information on the US Library of Congress website). At the Louisiana Purchasing Expo, Westinghouse staged several large-scale exhibitions and aired the above-mentioned film, while providing power for the expo.
(*Westinghouse at this time was worth $120 million, had about 50,000 employees, and had 9 factories in the U.S., 1 in Canada, and 5 in Europe)
1905
Powers the Manhattan Elevated Railroad (*the kind of elevated railroad that was before Highline Park's renovation) and the New York Subway.
1907
Westinghouse lost control of all his companies (*due to the Great Depression of 1907).
1911
Westinghouse cut ties with all his companies.
1914
Westinghouse dies (*he and his wife are buried in Arlington National Cemetery).
1918
Four years after Westinghouse's death, he was granted his last patent. (*A total of 361 patents have been obtained. If Edison is civilized as an inventor, Westinghouse is known as "Greatest Living Engineer's greatest living engineer" in the United States)
According to the information of the US Library of Congress; about the story of Westinghouse Electric and General Electric in the next hundred years, if you are interested, I can write about it.
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