Westinghouse
['westiŋhaus]
Definition
(noun.) United States inventor and manufacturer (1846-1914).
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Examples
- In February of 1897 the receiver sold the three Field patents to their original owner, and he in turn sold them to the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Siemens, Farmer, Brush, Maxim, Westinghouse, Edison, Swan, Lane--Fox and Others. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- This invention is chiefly the result of the ingenuity of Mr. George Westinghouse, Jr. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Other early inventors were Hart of Scotland, Siemens of Germany, Thompson and Houston of England, and Farmer, Brush, Wallace, Maxim, and Weston and Westinghouse of America. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The only other invention being honored in that year (1875) was the George Westinghouse air brake. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The second was to George Westinghouse for the air-brake. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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