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3 days ago · George Westinghouse. George Westinghouse Jr. (October 6, 1846 – March 12, 1914) was an American entrepreneur and engineer based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania who created the railway air brake and was a pioneer of the electrical industry, receiving his first patent at the age of 19.
2 days ago · Engineers working for the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company reported to George Westinghouse that Tesla had a viable AC motor and related power system—something Westinghouse needed for the alternating current system he was already marketing.
5 days ago · Lots to cover in this update. Our time in Belgrade was interesting. Although Belgrade is one of the oldest cities in Europe there isn’t a lot of ‘old’ left to see. We visited the Church of Saint Sava, the second largest Orthodox church in the world built from 1935 to 2004. In 1595 the Ottoman Grand Vizier burned the coffin of Saint Sava on the location where the church was eventually ...
1 day ago · George Westinghouse invented air brakes for trains (making them both safer and faster). Theodore Vail established the American Telephone & Telegraph Company and built a great communications network. Elisha Otis developed the elevator, allowing the construction of skyscrapers and the concentration of ever greater populations in urban centers.
5 days ago · The Notorious B.I.G. (born May 21, 1972, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.—died March 9, 1997, Los Angeles, California) was an American rapper who was among the most influential artists of 1990s gangsta rap. Wallace grew up near the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.
9 hours ago · 99 Fleet Pl #7G, Brooklyn, NY 11201 is an apartment unit listed for rent at $3,550 /mo. The -- sqft unit is a Studio, 1 bath apartment unit. View more property details, sales history, and Zestimate data on Zillow.
3 days ago · For example, Vicky Ruiz’s Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women, Unionization, and the California Food Processing Industry, 1930–1950 (Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 1987) and Ronald Schatz, The Electrical Workers: A History of Labor at General Electric and Westinghouse, 1923–60 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1983); and Filipelli and McCulloch, Cold War in ...
