The story of Pittsburgh: Electrical appliances

Electrical appliances (Vol. 1, nr.6)

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Identifikator:: 1831622599

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Title:: The story of Pittsburgh

Place of publication:: Pittsburgh

Publisher:: First National Bank

Year of publication:: 1919-1930

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1831623145

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-239771

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Title:: Electrical appliances

Volume count:: Vol. 1, nr.6

Place of publication:: Pittsburgh

Publisher:: First National Bank

Year of publication:: 1921

Scope:: [ca. 16] Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Electrical Appliances

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The Story of Pittsburgh ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES B HE name of George Westinghouse is known all over the world as one of the greatest inventors and captains of industry who ever lived. His fame was international long before he died, on March 12, 1914. He was one of the citizens who did most to build up the industries of this great industrial, commercial and financial center. He became one of the most famous and honored men not only of Pittsburgh or of the United States, but of the whole world, because the things he accom- plished were of the greatest importance to mankind. He was justly called “the greatest living engineer” during the last few years of his life. George Westinghouse, even as a boy, displayed much inventive genius. His father was an inventor and the son spent much of his time in the elder Westinghouse’s machine shop. There is a report, and it very well can be believed, that he invented a rotary engine before he was 15 years of age. Certain it is that at the age of 24, he had not only invented, but secured the adoption by railroad companies of the airbrake which bears his name. This is the most important safety device ever invented for obviating danger of railway travel, and it is the chief agency which has transformed railways from their early condition to the present state of efficiency and safety. George Westinghouse built the first ten great dynamos at Niagara, the dynamos for electric railways of New York and London, and he also developed steam turbines and the alternating current system of electricity. He was always his own master, never working for wages, but he did not begin with money, for he inherited none, nor was any given him in any form. His brains were his capital and

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