It began in the Age of Steam—a 19th century success story that resonates in the 21st century.
George Westinghouse, a spunky teenager with a head full of ideas, seized opportunity after opportunity to make technology better, faster and more efficient. In the process, he helped improve the way people live. He started a company, then another, then dozens of them. His ventures survived him and continued to evolve through decade after turbulent decade into forms he couldn't have predicted, but would no doubt have understood.
Westinghouse于1957年提供了世界上第一个商业加压水反应堆（PWR），在PA的FapitionPort，今天，全球运营中有超过430个核电反应堆，净装容量为370,543 MWE。Westinghouse技术是大约一半的反应堆的基础，为Westinghouse提供了世界上最大安装的运营厂底座。
Master workman. Founder. Inventor. Organizer.
More than any other man, George Westinghouse was responsible for the introduction and development of alternating current for light and power. With the desire to turn ideas into enterprises, he founded Westinghouse Electric and 59 other companies, eventually receiving more than 360 patents for his work.
1846年10月6日，1916年10月6日，1916年10月6日出生，是10名儿童的八分之一。当家庭搬到斯克内切，N.Y.，他的父亲为农业机械和小型蒸汽发动机建立了一家商店。在内战期间在联合军队雇用后，并简要上学院，西屋返回他父亲的商店，在1865年，他开发并获得了旋转蒸汽机。同年，他发明了一个将出轨货车放回轨道上的设备。
对铁路的持续兴趣LED WESTECHOUS到他的第一主要发明。通过手动操作制动观察停止训练的问题和限制，他设计了一种使用压缩空气驱动的制动器的方法。他将这个想法转向了西屋空气制动公司，成立于1869年。随着设计的附加功能，空气制动器被广泛接受，1893年的铁路安全设备法制造了所有美国火车的空气制动器。188金博下载最终，使用空气制动器蔓延到欧洲，并在Westinghouse的铅下，制动设备变得标准化。
随着铁路交通和铁路码的发展巨大增加，Westinghouse认识到需要更好的信令装置和互锁开关。采购专利与自己的发明结合，他开发了一个完整的电气和压缩空气信号系统。这些想法进化到1881年在匹兹堡成立的联盟开关和信号公司。
在院子里的家庭院子里钻孔导致了几十种发明，用于控制和分配天然气。他的想法是建立公司在匹兹堡地区分发天然气的基础。从这项工作中获得的知识指向他在电流的更好分配系统方向上。他发明了一种减少阀，允许从井中的高压气体在使用点以低压输送。他推理类似的设备可以用电力，他发现它在英格兰开发的所谓的二次发电机中。与威廉斯坦利这样的熟练同事，他将粗次生发电机转换成变压器，被证明是广泛分布电力的关键。
他在交替现有系统中的坚定信念导致了1886年的西部电气公司的成立，这对由托马斯爱迪生领导的直流系统的富丽根深蒂固的背包具有大胆的反对。但在仅仅10年的跨度中，交流系统的价值已经令人信服地证明。到世纪之交，西屋的企业已经发展到雇用了50,000多名工人。
Acclaimed in his time as the "greatest living engineer," George Westinghouse was accorded numerous honors in the U.S. and abroad, even after his death on March 12, 1914. Perhaps the finest tribute of all came from inventor Nikola Tesla, whose patents for the polyphase system of alternating current and the induction motor were acquired by Westinghouse and gave the company its early leadership in electric power developments. Westinghouse used Tesla's system to light the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893. This system was also a factor in the Westinghouse Electric Company winning the contract to install the first power machinery at Niagara Falls, which bore Tesla's name and patent numbers. "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."