Westinghouse

George Westinghouse (1846–1914) was the founder of Westinghouse Electric Corporation.

Westinghouse may also refer to:

Businesses

Westinghouse Licensing, the brand management division of CBS Corporation, and its licensees:
- Westinghouse Electric Company, providing nuclear power related services
- Westinghouse Digital LLC, selling LED and LCD televisions
- Russell Hobbs Inc, licensed to make small appliances such as vacuum cleaners under the Westinghouse name, from 2002 to 2008
Siemens Power Generation, the acquired non-nuclear energy divisions of Westinghouse Electric

Westinghouse Electric Corporation, renamed CBS Corporation in 1997
- Westinghouse Broadcasting (Group W), now integrated into CBS Broadcasting, Inc.
- White-Westinghouse, acquired by Electrolux in 1986
- Westinghouse Electronic Systems Group, sold to Northrop Grumman in 1996
- British Westinghouse, later subsumed into the General Electric Company
Westinghouse Air Brake Company, founding name of WABCO
Westinghouse Brake and Signal Company Ltd (1928–c.2000)
Westinghouse Signals, earlier name of Westinghouse Rail Systems
Westinghouse Brakes (UK), now part of Knorr-Bremse
Westinghouse Combustion Turbine Systems Division, a facility near the Philadelphia Airport later home to an industrial park, “Westinghouse Park”
Westinghouse Aviation Gas Turbine Division, maker of early turbojet engines (1945–1955)
Westinghouse Astronuclear Laboratory, late 1950s; Large, Pennsylvania; nuclear space propulsion technologies
Westinghouse Advanced Energy Systems Division, a renamed 1977 successor to Westinghouse Astronuclear Lab
Westinghouse Rail Systems Ltd, formerly Westinghouse Signals Ltd, part of Invensys

George Westinghouse Bridge, East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
George Westinghouse, Jr., Birthplace and Boyhood Home, Central Bridge, New York, USA
Westinghouse Park, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Westinghouse Air Brake Company General Office Building, Wilmerding, Pennsylvania, USA
George Westinghouse Jones House, Niskayuna, New York, USA, home of a cousin and associate of George Westinghouse

Westinghouse Studio One, an American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947
- List of Westinghouse Studio One episodes
- Twelve Angry Men (Westinghouse Studio One), a teleplay by the studio
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse, American television series which aired from 1958 to 1960
The Westinghouse Sign, a large, animated, electric sign located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Westinghouse Works, 1904, a collection of short films of various Westinghouse manufacturing plants

List of Westinghouse locomotives
Westinghouse Electric Company's AP1000, the first Generation III+ reactor to receive final design approval from the U.S.
Westinghouse Farm Engine, a small, vertical boilered farm engine made by George Westinghouse from 1886 to 1917
NZR RM class Westinghouse railcar, an experimental and inaugural railcar built in New Zealand in 1914

Westinghouse effect, a variant of the social-scientific observer's paradox
Westinghouse Science Talent Search, now called Intel Science Talent Search, an American science competition for high school students

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