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The name Westinghouse can refer to any number of devices and independent businesses that can trace their roots to the work of George Westinghouse:

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A1W reactor

The A1W nuclear reactor was a Westinghouse-built naval reactor, installed in the USS Enterprise (CVN-65) for a prototype...

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S1W reactor

The A1W nuclear reactor was a Westinghouse-built naval reactor, installed in the USS Nautilus (SSN-571) for a prototype...

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Lucien Gaulard

Westinghouse. Gaulard and John Gibbs, first exhibited a device in London in 1881 and then sold the idea to American company Westinghouse. They also exhibited the invention in Turin in 1884, where it was... amounts of power and promised to be easy to manufacture. Westinghouse imported a number of Gaulard-Gibbs...

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George Westinghouse

George Westinghouse Industrial entrepreneur George Westinghouse (October 6, 1846 - March 12 1914) was a conscientious employer and fair entrepreneur. The name of Westinghouse is as or more familiar... public figure but his contemporary George Westinghouse is now largely anonymous. This is somewhat...

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A4W reactor

carriers by a division of the Westinghouse Electric Corporation. The A stands for aircraft carrier, 4 for 4th reactor design, and W for Westinghouse...

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Air brake

In aeronautics air brakes or "spoilers" are a type of flight control used on aircraft to reduce speed during landing. On railways an air brake is a brake operated by compressed air. It was patented by George Westinghouse on March 5, 1872...

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Programmable Universal Machine for Assembly

The PUMA ( Programmable U niversal M achine for A ssembly, or P rogrammable U niversal M anipulation A rm) was robot-arm system developed by Vic Schienman at MIT for General Motors. Unimation produced PUMAs for years until being purchased by Westinghouse, and later Staubli...

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S5W reactor

The Westinghouse Electric Corporation's S5W nuclear reactor was the standard reactor for ships of the United States Navy from its first use in 1959 in the USS Skipjack to the introduction of the Los Angeles class submarines in the mid-1970s One such plant was also used in Britain's first nuclear...

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R42

1/2 Height 12' 1 5/8 Track Gauge 4' 8 1/2 Weight 74,433 pounds Seating 44 Propulsion Westinghouse Braking New York Air Brake Newtran Motors Westinghouse 1447J, 115 horsepower, 4 per car Related topics...

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Bettis Laboratory

in 1999; prior to that the plant was operated by Westinghouse. The laboratory designed the power...

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