Inventor, entrepreneur, and industrialist George Westinghouse held over 300 patents, including the life-saving locomotive air brake, which centralized locomotive braking systems. The device was ...

George Westinghouse is a trained engineer, an inventor, a manufacturer, and a financier. The combination is unique. View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

inventor of a type of vacuum tube called a triode, aired programs from New York's Metropolitan Opera House. But it was not until 1916, when a Westinghouse engineer named Frank Conrad played ...

In Nikola Tesla's original contract with George Westinghouse, the inventor was promised a bonus of $2.50 for every horsepower of alternating current sold. But making Tesla's AC motor was expensive ...

This is less about invention and more about naked commercial applications. Making the battle between Thomas Alva Edison and George Westinghouse riveting and audience friendly was always going to ...