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Author : Henry G. Prout
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book A Life of George Westinghouse written by Henry G. Prout and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Goslee Prout
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book A life of George Westinghouse written by Henry Goslee Prout and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Quentin R. Skrabec
Publisher : Algora Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0875865070
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (758 download)
Download or read book George Westinghouse written by Quentin R. Skrabec and published by Algora Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a biography of Westinghouse, genius inventor from railroad and gas distribution equipment to the corporate model of invention and research. He surpassed Edison in electricity pioneering and in managing workers too; but they both lost their companies in the panic of 1907. The bank always wins.
Author : Henry G Prout
Publisher : Pantianos Classics
ISBN 13 : 9781789872675
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (726 download)
Download or read book A Life of George Westinghouse written by Henry G Prout and published by Pantianos Classics. This book was released on 2020-09-07 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of businessman and engineer George Westinghouse is fascinating; his inventions revolutionized rail transport, and his pioneering distribution of electrical power changed life for Americans forever. Brought up in the small town of Central Bridge in upstate New York, Westinghouse showed talent from a young age, learning much of his father's mechanical knowhow. Filing his first patent at the tender age of 19, it was through his gifts in engineering and knack for business that Westinghouse rose to become one of the biggest names in cutting-edge American invention and technology. Though he built a variety of induction motors, steam and gas engines, it was his mechanical air braking system for trains that endured - its descendants are still used in modern locomotives worldwide. In maturity, Westinghouse competed with Thomas Edison for the electrical market; the staggering possibilities of delivering electricity to buildings meant the two fought intensely for contracts to roll out electrification, culminating in the World's Fair of 1893. There, George Westinghouse convincingly demonstrated how alternating current (AC) could deliver power at great scale to homes and businesses consistently, safely and efficiently. All these events and more comprise Henry G. Prout's biography, which delves into the schematics of Westinghouse's inventions, the resulting enterprises and the nature of the man himself.
Author : Francis Ellington Leupp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)
Download or read book George Westinghouse written by Francis Ellington Leupp and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William R. Huber
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476644144
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book George Westinghouse written by William R. Huber and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-02-03 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While most know Thomas Edison for his invention of the light bulb, his counterpart, George Westinghouse, is too often overlooked. Westinghouse, however, became known as one of the most prolific inventors and businessmen of the Industrial Revolution. This biography reveals the man whose teachers suspected was mentally disabled and who quit college after one semester, yet founded more than 60 different companies employing 50,000 people, and received 361 U.S. patents. He later fought the "Battle of the Currents" (AC vs. DC) with Thomas Edison and won. Westinghouse, with his engineers, provided power and light for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. They harnessed the massive power of Niagara Falls and sent it over wires to light Buffalo and eventually the Northeast. His electric engines powered trains, and his air brakes stopped them. His scientific contributions forever changed the world.
Author : Henry Goslee Prout
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Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (72 download)
Download or read book A life of George Westinghouse written by Henry Goslee Prout and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jill Jonnes
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0375758844
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)
Download or read book Empires of Light written by Jill Jonnes and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2004-10-12 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gripping history of electricity and how the fateful collision of Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and George Westinghouse left the world utterly transformed. In the final decades of the nineteenth century, three brilliant and visionary titans of America’s Gilded Age—Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and George Westinghouse—battled bitterly as each vied to create a vast and powerful electrical empire. In Empires of Light, historian Jill Jonnes portrays this extraordinary trio and their riveting and ruthless world of cutting-edge science, invention, intrigue, money, death, and hard-eyed Wall Street millionaires. At the heart of the story are Thomas Alva Edison, the nation’s most famous and folksy inventor, creator of the incandescent light bulb and mastermind of the world’s first direct current electrical light networks; the Serbian wizard of invention Nikola Tesla, elegant, highly eccentric, a dreamer who revolutionized the generation and delivery of electricity; and the charismatic George Westinghouse, Pittsburgh inventor and tough corporate entrepreneur, an industrial idealist who in the era of gaslight imagined a world powered by cheap and plentiful electricity and worked heart and soul to create it. Edison struggled to introduce his radical new direct current (DC) technology into the hurly-burly of New York City as Tesla and Westinghouse challenged his dominance with their alternating current (AC), thus setting the stage for one of the eeriest feuds in American corporate history, the War of the Electric Currents. The battlegrounds: Wall Street, the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, Niagara Falls, and, finally, the death chamber—Jonnes takes us on the tense walk down a prison hallway and into the sunlit room where William Kemmler, convicted ax murderer, became the first man to die in the electric chair.
Author : Richard Moran
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307425800
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Executioner's Current written by Richard Moran and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "fascinating and provocative" story (The Washington Post) of high stakes competition between two titans that shows how the electric chair developed through an effort by one nineteenth-century electric company to discredit the other. In 1882, Thomas Edison ushered in the “age of electricity” when he illuminated Manhattan’s Pearl Street with his direct current (DC) system. Six years later, George Westinghouse lit up Buffalo with his less expensive alternating current (AC). The two men quickly became locked in a fierce rivalry, made all the more complicated by a novel new application for their product: the electric chair. When Edison set out to persuade the state of New York to use Westinghouse’s current to execute condemned criminals, Westinghouse fought back in court, attempting to stop the first electrocution and keep AC from becoming the “executioner’s current.” In this meticulously researched account of the ensuing legal battle and the horribly botched first execution, Moran raises disturbing questions not only about electrocution, but about about our society’s tendency to rely on new technologies to answer moral questions.
Author : Graham Moore
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0812988914
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)
Download or read book The Last Days of Night written by Graham Moore and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A world of invention and skulduggery, populated by the likes of Edison, Westinghouse, and Tesla.”—Erik Larson “A model of superior historical fiction . . . an exciting, sometimes astonishing story.”—The Washington Post From Graham Moore, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of The Imitation Game and New York Times bestselling author of The Sherlockian, comes a thrilling novel—based on actual events—about the nature of genius, the cost of ambition, and the battle to electrify America. New York, 1888. Gas lamps still flicker in the city streets, but the miracle of electric light is in its infancy. The person who controls the means to turn night into day will make history—and a vast fortune. A young untested lawyer named Paul Cravath, fresh out of Columbia Law School, takes a case that seems impossible to win. Paul’s client, George Westinghouse, has been sued by Thomas Edison over a billion-dollar question: Who invented the light bulb and holds the right to power the country? The case affords Paul entry to the heady world of high society—the glittering parties in Gramercy Park mansions, and the more insidious dealings done behind closed doors. The task facing him is beyond daunting. Edison is a wily, dangerous opponent with vast resources at his disposal—private spies, newspapers in his pocket, and the backing of J. P. Morgan himself. Yet this unknown lawyer shares with his famous adversary a compulsion to win at all costs. How will he do it? In obsessive pursuit of victory, Paul crosses paths with Nikola Tesla, an eccentric, brilliant inventor who may hold the key to defeating Edison, and with Agnes Huntington, a beautiful opera singer who proves to be a flawless performer on stage and off. As Paul takes greater and greater risks, he’ll find that everyone in his path is playing their own game, and no one is quite who they seem. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER “A satisfying romp . . . Takes place against a backdrop rich with period detail . . . Works wonderfully as an entertainment . . . As it charges forward, the novel leaves no dot unconnected.”—Noah Hawley, The New York Times Book Review
Author : Henry G. Prout
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781497923874
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (238 download)
Download or read book The Life of George Westinghouse written by Henry G. Prout and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1921 Edition.
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Total Pages : 104 pages
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Download or read book The Westinghouse Air Brake Co written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry G. Prout
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781440058462
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (584 download)
Download or read book A Life of George Westinghouse (Classic Reprint) written by Henry G. Prout and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Life of George Westinghouse Many officers and members of The American Society of Mechanical Engineers have thought that the Society ought to publish the lives of some of its great men. In 1912 it published a special edition of the Autobiography of John Fritz, Honorary Member and Past President. This life of George Westinghouse, Honorary Member and Past President, is the second in what may be a series of such biographies. The activities of George Westinghouse were many and varied, and many different activities went on simultane ously. He dealt in the same week, and often in the same day, with organization, financial and executive affairs, com mercial affairs, and the engineering details of half a dozen companies in two hemispheres. They were as far apart in kind as the air brake and natural gas, and as far apart in geography as San Francisco and St. Petersburg. That being so, it seemed that a chronological narrative would of necessity lead to some confusion, not to say fatigue, for the reader. It was decided to treat each topic by itself without regard to what might be going on at the same time in other fields, with a short preliminary chapter to which the reader might return to orient himself should he care, for instance, to know what other serious things were in hand at a critical moment in the history of the air brake. It was hoped that by this treatment a certain continuity of impression might be kept in each story told by itself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : Franklin Classics
ISBN 13 : 9780342456406
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (564 download)
Download or read book A Life of George Westinghouse written by National Research Council and published by Franklin Classics. This book was released on 2018-10-11 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Henry Goslee PROUT
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Download or read book A Life of George Westinghouse, Etc written by Henry Goslee PROUT and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry G Prout
Publisher : Sagwan Press
ISBN 13 : 9781297934926
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (349 download)
Download or read book A Life of George Westinghouse written by Henry G Prout and published by Sagwan Press. This book was released on 2015-08-22 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Francis Ellington Leupp
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781314936858
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (368 download)
Download or read book George Westinghouse; His Life and Achievements... written by Francis Ellington Leupp and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
