Through such people as Nikola Tesla, Galileo Ferraris, Oliver Heaviside, Thomas Edison, Ottó Bláthy, Ányos Jedlik, Sir Charles Parsons, Joseph Swan, George Westinghouse, Ernst Werner von Siemens, Alexander Graham Bell and Lord Kelvin, electricity was turned from a scientific curiosity into an essential tool for modern life, becoming a driving force for the Second Industrial Revolution.

* 1846 – George Westinghouse, American engineer and inventor ( d. 1914 )

His patent was licensed and the turbine scaled-up shortly after by an American, George Westinghouse.

George Westinghouse and Edison became adversaries because of Edison's promotion of direct current ( DC ) for electric power distribution instead of the more easily transmitted alternating current ( AC ) system invented by Nikola Tesla and promoted by Westinghouse.

When George Westinghouse suggested using high-voltage AC instead, as it could carry electricity hundreds of miles with marginal loss of power, Edison waged a " War of Currents " to prevent AC from being adopted.

" However, he is also notorious for having electrocuted a number of dogs in 1888, both by direct and alternating current, in an attempt to argue that the former ( which he had a vested business interest in promoting ) was safer than the latter ( favored by his rival George Westinghouse ).

Although George Westinghouse had bought Gaulard and Gibbs ' patents in 1885, the Edison Electric Light Company held an option on the U. S. rights for the Z. B. D.

* Nikola Tesla sells a number of his patents to George Westinghouse.

** George Westinghouse patents the " failsafe " automatic railway air brake.

* 1885 – 1887: William Stanley, Jr. of Brooklyn, New York, an employee of George Westinghouse, creates an improved transformer.

Tesla's designs are soon put in practical use by George Westinghouse of the Westinghouse Electric.

Nunn joined forces with Nikola Tesla and George Westinghouse and built the Ames Hydroelectric Generating Plant, the world's first commercial-grade alternating-current power plant, near Telluride.

George Westinghouse, Jr ( October 6, 1846 – March 12, 1914 ) was an American entrepreneur and engineer who invented the railway air brake and was a pioneer of the electrical industry.

* George Westinghouse, 1846 – 1914, engineer, inventor and entrepreneur

Early electric power systems, such as those installed by George Westinghouse and Thomas Edison, prior to the turn of the century were isolated central stations which served small pockets of customers independently of each other.

* 1868 – George Westinghouse invented the compressed-air brake for railway trains.

Shortly thereafter in the same year, George Westinghouse personally recruited Fessenden for the newly created position of chair of the Electrical Engineering department at the Western University of Pennsylvania, renamed to the University of Pittsburgh in 1908.

Nearby, the George Westinghouse Bridge over Turtle Creek is a prominent fixture in the area, which is very near the borough of Braddock.

* George Westinghouse, inventor

U. S. Route 30 highway passes through North Braddock before reaching the George Westinghouse Bridge to East Pittsburgh.

George Westinghouse Bridge at the western terminus of North Versailles Township

The Lincoln Highway, US Route 30, traverses North Versailles and on its western border crosses the Turtle Creek valley via the George Westinghouse Bridge into East Pittsburgh.

A statue to Sir George Rooke was erected in 2004 as part of the tercentenery celebrations.

The village sign, bearing two crossed sceptres topped with doves, was erected to mark the coronation of George VI.

In 1893, George Pullman had a sculpture he had commissioned from Carl Rohl-Smith erected near his house.

At this time, the Dutch settlers erected some small earthworks and a three-cannon fort above the warehouse, on the hill where Fort George would eventually be built by the English.

Usually building upon earlier Dutch fortifications, new structures armed with cannons were erected at Fort Charlotte, Fort George, Fort Burt, Fort Recovery, and a new fort that was built in the centre of Road Town which came to be known as the Road Town Fort.

However a monument designed by the architect Sir Clough Williams-Ellis was subsequently erected around the grave, bearing an englyn ( strict-metre stanza ) engraved on slate in his memory composed by his nephew Dr William George.

Meeting with Lee, Longstreet was concerned about the strength of the Union defensive position and advocated a strategic movement around the left flank of the enemy, to " secure good ground between him and his capital ," which would presumably compel the Union commander, Maj. Gen. George G. Meade, to attack defensive positions erected by the Confederates.

The Marion County brick courthouse was erected in 1914, architect Elmer George Withers.

Local landmarks include St Mary the Virgin church and a clock tower erected to commemorate the coronation of King George VI.

* In the centre of the village is a freestanding clock tower erected to commemorate the coronation of George VI in 1937.

Antiquities include Breckness House, erected in 1633 by George Graham, bishop of Orkney at the west entrance of Hoy Sound ; and an ancient cemetery, with ruined church, and remains of a monastery, between Breckness House and Stromness town.

In 1924, they erected an, 28-room Georgian Revival mansion, designed by architect George Oakley Totten, Jr., at a cost of $ 100, 000.

Originally named " Fairchild City ," or just " The City ," after Alpheus Fairchild, who bought most of today's village in 1798 from John A. DeWitt, Fairchild had a dwelling erected on part of the site where the George and John R. Hunt Memorial Building stands today.

In 1849, a priest named Father George Menzel erected a new cross.

By 1741, Handel's pre-eminence in British music was evident from the honours he had accumulated, including: a pension from the court of King George II, the office of Composer of Musick for the Chapel Royal and — most unusually for a living person — a statue erected in his honour, in Vauxhall Gardens.

There are various sacral objects of Eastern Orthodox churches in the City such as St. George church which originates from 13th century, or Christ's Resurrection Church which is largest temple in the city recently erected.

It is also the first figurative memorial to Lord Nelson to be erected in Great Britain ( only second in the world after Montreal ) and was unveiled on 25 October 1809, as part of King George III's Golden Jubilee celebrations.

At the south end of Park Lane, on the west side, gates in honour of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother ( widow of George VI ) have been erected, bearing motifs in a freely modern interpretation from her coat of arms.

At the peak of its popularity, the Forward erected a ten-story office building at 175 East Broadway on the Lower East Side, designed by architect George Boehm and completed in 1912.

The monument, originally erected by George Pollock, who was either the boy's father or his uncle, has been replaced twice due to deterioration.

This contains wide green lawns and sports facilities, and the Grade I listed former King's Observatory erected for George III in 1769.

It was erected in 1857 and unveiled by the then Mayor, George Thornton.

On 26 November 1834, the town was first gazetted and George Brown erected the first court house.

In the late 15th century, queen consort Johana of Rožmitál, wife of King George of Poděbrady, had a castle erected on the ruins.