Westinghouse
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Westinghouse may refer to:

In current companies:
  • Westinghouse Licensing, the brand management division of CBS Corporation
    CBS Corporation
    CBS Corporation is an American media conglomerate focused on commercial broadcasting, publishing, billboards and television production, with most of its operations in the United States. The President and CEO of the company is Leslie Moonves. Sumner Redstone, owner of National Amusements, is CBS's...

    , and its licensees:
    • Westinghouse Electric Company LLC
      Westinghouse Electric Company
      Westinghouse Electric Company LLC is a nuclear power company, offering a wide range of nuclear products and services to utilities throughout the world, including nuclear fuel, service and maintenance, instrumentation and control and advanced nuclear plant designs...

      , providing nuclear power related services.
    • Westinghouse Digital LLC
      Westinghouse Digital LLC
      Westinghouse Digital LLC is a US company that markets LCD televisions and other flat-panel display products located in Orange, California.It is one of the licensees of the Westinghouse Electric Corporation.-History:...

      , selling LED and LCD televisions
    • Salton, Inc.
      Russell Hobbs Inc
      Russell Hobbs, Inc. is a United States company based in Florida that manufactures home appliances, most notably the George Foreman grill and Russell Hobbs appliances. It is owned by Spectrum Brands....

      , licensed to make small appliances such as vacuum cleaners under the Westinghouse name, from 2002 to 2008
    • Westinghouse Lighting Corporation, formerly Angelo Brothers Company, selling lamps, lamp fixtures, and ceiling fans
      Ceiling fan
      A ceiling fan is a fan, usually electrically powered, suspended from the ceiling of a room, that uses hub-mounted rotating paddles to circulate air....

      .
  • Westinghouse Rail Systems
    Westinghouse Rail Systems
    Westinghouse Rail Systems Ltd is a British supplier of railway signalling and control equipment to the rail industry worldwide. Its head office is in Chippenham, Wiltshire, where it manufactures a variety of mechanical and electrical/electronic railway signalling equipment...

     Ltd, formerly Westinghouse Signals Ltd, part of Invensys

In prior companies and divisions:
  • Westinghouse Electric (1886)
    Westinghouse Electric (1886)
    Westinghouse Electric was an American manufacturing company. It was founded in 1886 as Westinghouse Electric Company and later renamed Westinghouse Electric Corporation by George Westinghouse. The company purchased CBS in 1995 and became CBS Corporation in 1997...

    , renamed CBS Corporation in 1997
    • Westinghouse Broadcasting
      Westinghouse Broadcasting
      The Westinghouse Broadcasting Company, also known as Group W, was the broadcasting division of Westinghouse Electric Corporation. It owned several radio and television stations across the United States and distributed television shows for syndication....

       (Group W), now integrated into CBS Broadcasting, Inc.
    • White-Westinghouse
      White-Westinghouse
      White-Westinghouse is an American home appliance brand currently used under license by trademark owner CBS Corporation. It was created in 1975 when White Consolidated Industries bought the Westinghouse Electric Corporation's appliance unit...

      , acquired by Electrolux in 1986
    • Westinghouse Electronic Systems Group, sold to Northrop Grumman in 1996
    • British Westinghouse
      British Westinghouse
      British Westinghouse Electrical and Manufacturing Company was a subsidiary of the American Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company. British Westinghouse would become a subsidiary of Metropolitan-Vickers in 1919; and after Metropolitan Vickers merged with British Thomson-Houston in 1929, it...

      , later subsumed into The General Electric Company
  • Westinghouse Air Brake Company
    Westinghouse Air Brake Company
    The railway air brake was invented by George Westinghouse of New York state in 1869. Soon after, he moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he established the Westinghouse Air Brake Company on September 28, 1869...

    , founding name of WABCO
  • Westinghouse Brake and Signal Company Ltd
    Westinghouse Brake and Signal Company Ltd
    The Westinghouse Brake & Signal Company Ltd was created in 1935 when the Westinghouse Brake & Saxby Signal Company Ltd, dropped the 'Saxby' from their title...

     (1928–c.2000)
  • Westinghouse Signals, earlier name of Westinghouse Rail Systems
  • Westinghouse Brakes
    Westinghouse brakes
    Westinghouse Brakes may refer to:* A Railway air brake* Westinghouse Air Brake Company - US* Westinghouse Brakes - UK...

     (UK), now part of Knorr-Bremse
  • Westinghouse Combustion Turbine Systems Division
    Westinghouse Combustion Turbine Systems Division
    Part of the Westinghouse Power Generation group, the Westinghouse Combustion Turbine Systems Division was originally located, along with the Steam Turbine Systems Division , in a major industrial facility in Tinicum Township , near the Philadelphia International Airport.According to CTSD marketing...

    , a facility near the Philadelphia airport later home to an industrial park “Westinghouse Park”
  • Westinghouse Aviation Gas Turbine Division
    Westinghouse Aviation Gas Turbine Division
    The Westinghouse Aviation Gas Turbine Division was established by Westinghouse Electric Corporation in 1945 to continue the development and production of its gas turbine engines.-History:...

    , maker of the J-series of turbojet engines
  • Westinghouse Astronuclear Laboratory
    Westinghouse Astronuclear Laboratory
    The Westinghouse Astronuclear Laboratory was a division of Westinghouse Electric Corporation. Established in the late 1959 to develop nuclear space propulsion technologies for the government, the lab was located, for most of its history, in the paradoxically small town of "Large" along Pa. Rte 51,...

    , late 1950s; Large, Pennsylvania; nuclear space propulsion technologies
  • Westinghouse Advanced Energy Systems Division
    Westinghouse Advanced Energy Systems Division
    Westinghouse Advanced Energy Systems Division was a research and development facility for nonconventional renewable energy systems, in the paradoxically small town of Large in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania [USA]. The site is on the east side of Pa. Rte. 51, about south of Pittsburgh...

    , a re-named 1977 successor to Westinghouse Astronuclear Lab


In places:
  • George Westinghouse Bridge
    George Westinghouse Bridge
    George Westinghouse Memorial Bridge in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania carries U.S. Route 30, The Lincoln Highway, over the Turtle Creek Valley where it joins the Monongahela River Valley east of Pittsburgh....

    , East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  • George Westinghouse, Jr., Birthplace and Boyhood Home
    George Westinghouse, Jr., Birthplace and Boyhood Home
    George Westinghouse, Jr., Birthplace and Boyhood Home is a historic home located at Central Bridge in Schoharie County, New York. The property includes two 19th-century residences, two small barns, a well house and privy, as well as the site of a combined blacksmith shop and threshing machine works...

    , Central Bridge, New York
  • Westinghouse Park
    Westinghouse Park
    Westinghouse Park is a small municipal park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.The park's lands are the site of the former mansion, "Solitude", which was home to George Westinghouse, an American entrepreneur and engineer....

    , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  • Westinghouse Air Brake Company General Office Building
    Westinghouse Air Brake Company General Office Building
    The Westinghouse Air Brake Company General Office Building in Wilmerding, Pennsylvania is a building from 1890. It was listed on the Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation in 1975, National Register of Historic Places in 1987...

    , Wilmerding , Pennsylvania
  • George Westinghouse Jones House
    George Westinghouse Jones House
    George Westinghouse Jones House, also known as Caermarthen, is a historic home located at Niskayuna in Schenectady County, New York. It was built about 1900 and designed by the noted architectural firm of Rutan and Russell. It is a rambling, -story gable-roofed frame residence in the Shingle Style...

    , Niskayuna, New York, home of a cousin and associate of George Westinghouse


In competitions
  • former Westinghouse Science Talent Search, now called Intel Science Talent Search
    Intel Science Talent Search
    The Intel Science Talent Search , known for its first 57 years as the Westinghouse Science Talent Search is a research-based science competition in the United States for high school seniors. It has been referred to as "the nation's oldest and most prestigious" science competition. In his speech...

     - an American science competition for high school students


In science:
  • Westinghouse effect, a variant of the social-scientific observer's paradox
    Observer's paradox
    In the social sciences, the observer's paradox refers to phenomena where the observation of an event or experiment is influenced by the presence of the observer/investigator.-In linguistics:...



People with the surname Westinghouse
  • George Westinghouse
    George Westinghouse
    George Westinghouse, Jr was an American entrepreneur and engineer who invented the railway air brake and was a pioneer of the electrical industry. Westinghouse was one of Thomas Edison's main rivals in the early implementation of the American electricity system...

    , founder of Westinghouse Electric Corporation


In products:
  • The Westinghouse J34
    Westinghouse J34
    -See also:-External links:* http://www.arkairmuseum.org/engines/engine-westinghouse.php* http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/aircraft/systems/j34.htm...

    , J30
    Westinghouse J30
    -See also:...

    , J40
    Westinghouse J40
    |-References:...

    , J46
    Westinghouse J46
    |-References:...

     and other Westinghouse Aviation Gas Turbine Division turbojets
  • The Milwaukee Road class EP-3
    Milwaukee Road class EP-3
    The Milwaukee Road's class EP-3 comprised ten electric locomotives built in 1919 by Baldwin and Westinghouse. They were nicknamed Quills because of their use of a quill drive...

     "Quill" electric locomotives built in 1919 by Baldwin and Westinghouse, and other Westinghouse locomotives
  • Westinghouse Electric Company's AP1000, the first Generation III+ reactor to receive final design approval from the U.S
  • Westinghouse Farm Engine
    Westinghouse Farm Engine
    The Westinghouse Farm Engine was a small, vertical boilered farm engine that emerged in the late nineteenth century. In the transition from horses to machinery, small portable steam engines were hauled by horses from farm to farm. Many small workshops produced them...

    , a small, vertical boilered farm engine made by George Westinghouse from 1886 to 1917
  • NZR RM class Westinghouse railcar
    NZR RM class (Westinghouse)
    The NZR RM class Westinghouse railcar was an experimental railcar built by the New Zealand Railways Department in 1914. Although not the first railcar to operate in New Zealand, it was the first to enter revenue service.- Development :...

    , an experimental and inaugural railcar built in New Zealand in 1914


In media:
  • Westinghouse Studio One, Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
    Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
    Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse is an American television anthology series produced by Desilu Productions. The show ran on CBS television between 1958 and 1960...

     and Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
    Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
    Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse is an American television anthology series produced by Desilu Productions. The show ran on CBS television between 1958 and 1960...

    , American television series
  • Twelve Angry Men (Westinghouse Studio One)
  • List of Westinghouse Studio One episodes
  • The Westinghouse Sign
    Westinghouse Sign
    The Westinghouse Sign was a large, animated, electric sign advertising the Westinghouse Electric company and located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The sign was best known for the huge number of combinations in which it was commonly believed its individual elements could be illuminated...

    , a large, animated, electric sign located in Pittsburgh
  • Westinghouse Works, 1904
    Westinghouse Works, 1904
    Westinghouse Works, 1904 is a collection of 21 short films, averaging about three minutes each, taken of various Westinghouse manufacturing plants from April 13, 1904 to May 16, 1904. They were made by G. W. Bitzer of the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, were shown at the Westinghouse...

    , a collection of short films of various Westinghouse manufacturing plants

See also

  • Westinghouse High School (disambiguation)
  • George Westinghouse Award (disambiguation)
  • Siemens Power Generation
    Siemens Power Generation
    Siemens Power Generation, Inc is a power generation company based in the United States run by the German Siemens AG Corporation.SPGI was formed by the acquisition and merger of the non-nuclear energy divisions of Westinghouse Electric Company by the Siemens power generation division in 1997; the...

    , the acquired non-nuclear energy divisions of Westinghouse Electric
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