Westinghouse Electric (1886)

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Timeline of company evolution

1880s

• 1886 - Founded Westinghouse Electric Company
• 1889 - renames itself the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company

1890s

• 1891 - build world's first commercial AC system (Ames Hydroelectric Generating Plant
  Ames Hydroelectric Generating Plant
  
  The Ames Hydroelectric Generating Plant, located near Ophir, Colorado, was the world's first commercial system to produce and transmit alternating current electricity....
  )
• 1893 - supplies electric lights and power for Chicago World Fair
• 1895 - installs hydropower AC generators at Niagara Falls
  Niagara Falls
  
  The Niagara Falls are massive waterfalls on the Niagara River, straddling the Canada?United States border between the Provinces and territories of Canada of Ontario and the U.S....
   which supplied power to Buffalo, NY
• 1899 - founds British Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company
  British Westinghouse
  
  British Westinghouse Electrical and Manufacturing Company was a subsidiary of the American Westinghouse Electric Corporation. British Westinghouse would become a subsidiary of Metropolitan Vickers in 1919; and after Metropolitan Vickers merged with British Thomson-Houston in 1929, it became part of Associated Electrical Industries in 1959....
  

1900s to 1920s

• 1901 - acquires Bryant Electric Company
  Bryant Electric Company
  
  The Bryant Electric Company was a manufacturer of wiring devices, electrical components, and switches founded by Waldo C. Bryant in 1888 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA....
   of Bridgeport, Connecticut
  Bridgeport, Connecticut
  
  Bridgeport is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Connecticut. Located in and the former county seat of Fairfield County, Connecticut, the city had an estimated population of 137,912 in 2006 and is the core of the Greater Bridgeport area....
  , which continues operation as a subsidiary
• 1909 - ousts George Westinghouse as chairman during bankruptcy reorganization
• 1914 - acquires Copeman Electric Stove Company in Flint, Michigan
  Flint, Michigan
  
  Flint is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and is located along the Flint River , 66 miles northwest of Detroit, Michigan. As of the United States 2000 Census, the city had a population of 124,943, making it the fifth largest city in Michigan....
   from Lloyd Groff Copeman
  Lloyd Groff Copeman
  
  Lloyd Groff Copeman was a prolific and successful American inventor who was responsible for devising the first electric stove, an early form of the microwave oven and the flexible rubber ice cube tray, among other products....
  , moves it to Mansfield, Ohio
  Mansfield, Ohio
  
  Mansfield is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Richland County, Ohio. The municipality is located in north-central Ohio in the western foothills of the Allegheny Plateau, approximately 80 miles southwest of Cleveland, Ohio and 66 miles northeast of Columbus, Ohio....
   and enters the home appliance market (sold in 1974 to White Consolidated Industries)
• 1915 - New England Westinghouse Company opens for business. First product: Mosin-Nagant
  Mosin-Nagant
  
  The Mosin-Nagant is a bolt-action, internal magazine fed, military rifle that was used by the armed forces of the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and various Eastern bloc nations....
   rifles for the Czar's army.
• 1916 - share of British Westinghouse purchased by a British holding company, which becomes Metropolitan-Vickers
  Metropolitan-Vickers
  
  Metropolitan-Vickers, Metrovick, or Metrovicks, was a United Kingdom heavy electrical engineering company of the early-to-mid 20th century formerly known as British Westinghouse....
  
• 1920s - enters the broadcasting industry
  Westinghouse Broadcasting
  
  The Westinghouse Broadcasting Company, also known as Group W, was the broadcasting division of Westinghouse Electric . It owned several radio and television stations across the United States and distributed television shows for television syndication....
  , with stations like KDKA in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  
  Pittsburgh is the second largest city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania with a population of 312,819. The population of the seven-county metropolitan area is 2,462,571....
   and WBZ (AM)
  WBZ (AM)
  
  WBZ is the call sign for an Amplitude modulation radio station in Boston, Massachusetts which is owned by CBS Radio , which itself is owned by the CBS Corporation....
   in Massachusetts
  Massachusetts
  
  The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a U.S. state located in the New England region of the Northeastern United States United States. It borders Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north....
  

1930s and 1940s

• 1934 - opens its Home of Tomorrow in Mansfield, Ohio
  Mansfield, Ohio
  
  Mansfield is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Richland County, Ohio. The municipality is located in north-central Ohio in the western foothills of the Allegheny Plateau, approximately 80 miles southwest of Cleveland, Ohio and 66 miles northeast of Columbus, Ohio....
  , to demonstrate Westinghouse home appliances
• 1935 - completes longest continuous electric steel annealing furnace in the world at Ford Motor Company
  Ford Motor Company
  
  The Ford Motor Company is an United States multinational corporation and the world's List of automobile manufacturers#World Motor Vehicle Production by Manufacturer based on worldwide vehicle sales, following Toyota, General Motors, and Volkswagen Group....
  , Dearborn, Michigan
  Dearborn, Michigan
  
  Dearborn is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is located in the Metro Detroit and Wayne County, Michigan, and is the tenth largest city in the U.S....
  
• 1930s - funds invention of the magnetohydrodynamic generator
• 1940s - enters aviation with airborne radar
  Radar
  
  Radar is a system that uses electromagnetic radiation waves to identify the range, altitude, direction, or speed of both moving and fixed objects such as aircraft, ships, motor vehicles, weather formations, and terrain....
   (defense electronics sold 1996), jet engine propulsion, and ground based airport lighting, gets defense contract from U.S. Military to produce plastic helmet liners for the M1 Helmet
  M1 Helmet
  
  The M1 helmet is a combat helmet that was used by the United States military from World War II until it was succeeded by the Personnel Armor System for Ground Troops#Helmet beginning in 1985....
  
• 1941 - after years of resistance to the unionization efforts of its employees and to the National Labor Relations Act
  National Labor Relations Act
  
  The National Labor Relations Act is a 1935 United States federal law that protects the rights of most workers in the private sector to organize trade unions, to engage in collective bargaining, and to take part in Strike actions and other forms of concerted activity in support of their demands....
  , signs a national labor agreement with the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America
  United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America
  
  The United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America , is an independent democratic rank-and-file trade union representing workers in both the private and public sectors across the United States....
   after a US Supreme Court decision that upheld the Act.
• 1945 - renames itself the Westinghouse Electric Corporation, and makes first automatic elevator.

1950s to 1970s

• 1960s - acquires ThermoKing, begins automated mass transit (sold 1988); adopts "You Can Be Sure If It's Westinghouse" as advertising slogan for home appliances
• 1970s - sells well-known home appliance division to White Consolidated Industries which becomes White-Westinghouse
  White-Westinghouse
  
  White-Westinghouse is a home appliance company formed by the acquisition of the Westinghouse Electric Corporation's appliance unit by White Consolidated Industries in 1975....
  
• 1979 - sells off all Oil Refineries and closes other civic projects in Iran after the Iranian Revolution
  Iranian Revolution
  
  The Iranian Revolution was the revolution that transformed Iran from a Iranian monarchy under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi to an Islamic republic under Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader of the revolution and founder of the Islamic Republic....
  .

1980s

• 1981 - acquires Cable television
  Cable television
  
  Cable television is a system of providing television to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted to televisions through fixed optical fibers or coaxial cables as opposed to the over-the-air method used in traditional television broadcasting in which a television antenna is required....
   operator TelePrompter
  Teleprompter
  
  A teleprompter is a display device that prompts the person speaking with an Electronics visual character of a public speaking or screenplay....
   (sold 1985),
• 1982 - acquires robot maker Unimation
• 1982 - sells street light
  Street light
  
  A street light, lamppost, street lamp, light standard, or lamp standard is a raised source of light on the edge of a road, which is turned on or lit at a certain time every night....
   division to Cooper Lighting,
• 1983 - sells electric lamp division to Philips
  Philips
  
  Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. , usually known as Philips, is a Netherlands electronics company. It is one of the largest electronics companies in the world, founded and headquartered in the Netherlands....
  ,
• 1988 - sells elevator/escalator division to Schindler Group
  Schindler Group
  
  The Schindler Group was founded in Switzerland in 1874 and is the largest manufacturer of escalators and the second largest manufacturer of elevators world wide....
  ,
• 1988 - closes the East Pittsburgh plant, which had once been the primary Westinghouse manufacturing facility.
• 1989 - sells watthour meter division at Raleigh, North Carolina to Asea Brown Boveri
  Asea Brown Boveri
  
  ABB, formerly Asea Brown Boveri, is a multinational corporation headquartered in Z?rich, Switzerland, operating mainly in the motive power and automation technology areas....
   Group.

1990s to 2000s

• 1994 - sells electric power distribution and control business unit to Eaton Corporation
  Eaton Corporation
  
  Eaton Corporation is a diversified industrial manufacturer with 2008 sales of $15.4 billion . Eaton is a global leader in electrical systems and components for power quality, distribution and control; fluid power systems and services for industrial, mobile and aircraft equipment; intelligent truck drivetrain systems for safety and fuel econo...
   for $1 billion
• 199x - separates IT and phone service sales into Westinghouse Communications division
• 1995 - buys CBS
  CBS
  
  CBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American radio network and television network. The name is derived from the initials of Columbia Broadcasting System, its former legal name....
   for US$5.4 billion.
• 1996 - buys Infinity Broadcasting
• 1996 - sells Westinghouse Electronic Systems defense business to Northrop Grumman
  Northrop Grumman
  
  Northrop Grumman Corporation is an aerospace and defense technology company formed by the 1994 purchase of Grumman by Northrop. The company is the fourth largest defense contractor in the world, and the largest builder of Naval ship....
   for $3 billion, becoming Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems
  Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems
  
  Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems was created by Northrop Grumman acquisition of Westinghouse Electronic Systems Group in 1996. The Electronic Systems sector is a leading designer, developer, and manufacturer of a wide variety of advanced defense electronics and systems....
  .
• 1997 - sells most non-broadcast operations; renames itself CBS Corporation
• 1998 - sells remaining manufacturing asset, its nuclear energy business, to BNFL
  BNFL
  
  British Nuclear Fuels plc or BNFL manufactures and transports nuclear fuel , runs reactors, generates and sells electricity, reprocesses and manages spent fuel , and decommissions nuclear plants and other similar facilities....
   which sold it to Toshiba
  Toshiba
  
  is a multinational corporation list of conglomerates manufacturing company, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. The company's main business is in Infrastructure, Consumer Products, and Electronic devices and components....
   in 2006 which still operates it as Westinghouse Electric Company
  Westinghouse Electric Company
  
  The Westinghouse Electric Company is a multi-national nuclear reactor technologies company, a part of the original Westinghouse Electric . The company's operations incorporate various nuclear services, nuclear power plant, nuclear fuel, inspection equipment, advanced welding services, and remote handling equipment to utilities and government...
   today.
• 1998 - CBS Corporation creates a new subsidiary called Westinghouse Electric Corporation to manage the Westinghouse brand
  Brand
  
  A brand is a collection of symbols, experiences and associations connected with a product, a service, a person or any other artifact or entity....
  .
• 1999 - sells itself to Viacom, Inc.
  Viacom (1971-2005)
  
  The original Viacom began life as CBS Films, Inc., the television television syndication division of CBS. In 1971, the division was renamed VIACOM , and in 1973 it was spun off, amid new Federal Communications Commission rules forbidding television networks from owning syndication companies ....
  
• 2005 - Viacom renamed itself CBS Corporation
  CBS Corporation
  
  CBS Corporation is an United States media conglomerate focused on broadcasting, publishing, billboards, and television production, with most of its operations in the United States....
  

See also

• For other companies named Westinghouse see Westinghouse
  Westinghouse
  
  Westinghouse may refer to:In current companies:*Westinghouse Electric Corporation , and its licensees:**Westinghouse Digital Electronics, selling LCD televisions and related products...
  .
• For the spinoff nuclear energy company see Westinghouse Electric Company
  Westinghouse Electric Company
  
  The Westinghouse Electric Company is a multi-national nuclear reactor technologies company, a part of the original Westinghouse Electric . The company's operations incorporate various nuclear services, nuclear power plant, nuclear fuel, inspection equipment, advanced welding services, and remote handling equipment to utilities and government...
  .
• 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 Electric Corporation manufacturing plants from April 13, 1904 to May 16, 1904....
  
• Westinghouse Broadcasting
  Westinghouse Broadcasting
  
  The Westinghouse Broadcasting Company, also known as Group W, was the broadcasting division of Westinghouse Electric . It owned several radio and television stations across the United States and distributed television shows for television syndication....
  , also known as Group W
• Siemens Westinghouse, also known as Siemens Power Generation, Inc.

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