The atom reactor, water cooled, was the result of almost a decade of research at the naval reactors branch of the atomic energy commission and Westinghouse Electric Corp..

Let us look at the heavy-electrical-goods industry in which General Electric, Westinghouse and a number of other manufacturers were recently convicted of engaging in a conspiracy to rig prices and allocate the market.

NNS and Westinghouse Electric Company jointly form Offshore Power Systems to build floating nuclear power plants for Public Service Electric and Gas Company.

The following cooperation among RCA, General Electric, the United Fruit Company, the Westinghouse Electric Corporation, and American Telephone & Telegraph ( AT & T ) brought about innovations in high-power radio technology, and also the founding of the National Broadcasting Company ( NBC ) in the US.

In 1930, the U. S. Department of Justice brought antitrust charges against RCA, General Electric and 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.

* A letter for the reactor's designer (" W " for Westinghouse, " G " for General Electric, " C " for Combustion Engineering, and " B " for Bechtel )

After the Skate-class vessels, reactor development proceeded and in the USA a single series of standardized designs was built by both Westinghouse and General Electric, with one reactor powering each vessel.

** The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations ( formed by Westinghouse, General Electric and RCA ).

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

The Westinghouse Electric Corporation acquired the network in 1995 and eventually adopted the name of the company it had bought to become CBS Corporation.

Thomas Edison, Brush, Western Electric, and Westinghouse had exhibits.

The invention sparked the " War of Currents " between the Westinghouse Electric Corporation and the General Electric Company headed by Thomas Edison and J. P. Morgan.

One was Skybus, an automated mass transit system prototyped by the Westinghouse Electric Corporation beginning in 1964.

In 1893, Westinghouse Electric was hired to design a system to generate alternating current on Niagara Falls, and three years after that, the world's first large AC power system was created, activated on August 26, 1895.

In July 2005, BNFL confirmed it planned to sell Westinghouse Electric Company, then estimated to be worth $ 1. 8bn (£ 1bn ).

Duke plans to develop the site for two Westinghouse Electric Company AP1000 ( advanced passive ) pressurized water reactors.

Among the casualties to exit the semiconductor business were General Electric and Westinghouse.

* Eugene Victor Kaplan, designer of the first electrical switch engine for Westinghouse Electric Company

Vladimir Zworykin worked for Westinghouse Electric Corporation at that time.

U. S. startup companies included Automatix and Adept Technology, Inc. At the height of the robot boom in 1984, Unimation was acquired by Westinghouse Electric Corporation for 107 million U. S. dollars.

On April 7, 2008, Progress Energy Florida, St. Petersburg, announced it had authorized Shaw and Westinghouse to purchase long-lead-time materials for up to two AP1000 nuclear reactors for a greenfield plant in Levy County, producing about 1, 100 MW each.

* 1932: Westinghouse announced the Ignitron mercury-arc rectifier.

* 2010: Westinghouse announced their involvement in a new, ultra-large forging press in the United Kingdom to be built at Sheffield Forgemasters in Yorkshire ; takes a major stake in Springfields fuel site in the United Kingdom which includes a permanent transfer of Springfields Fuel Limited ownership to Westinghouse.

Westinghouse and the AP1000 have been selected as the supplier and technology of choice for a combined total of at least 14 new plants announced by the NuStart Consortium, Duke Power, Progress Energy, Southern Nuclear and SCE & G.

On February 6, 2006 Toshiba confirmed it was buying Westinghouse Electric Company for $ 5. 4bn and announced it would sell a minority stake to investors.

Five months later, on August 1, Westinghouse announced that it was purchasing CBS, a transaction that was completed on November 24 ; as a result, WBZ came under the CBS Radio banner.

On December 14, 2009, SFLC announced the filing of a lawsuit against 14 companies, including Best Buy, Samsung, and Westinghouse alleging these companies had violated GPLv2 by distributing BusyBox in some of their products without releasing BusyBox source code.

In June 1955 Westinghouse announced that it would sell its Philadelphia stations, KYW radio and WPTZ-TV, to NBC.

A short time later, Westinghouse announced it was buying CBS proper, a transaction which closed in early 1996.

However, Westinghouse had announced in 1953 that it was leaving the locomotive equipment market, in part because of the generator reliability issues in the F-M units.

However, the planned purchase was canceled when NBC and the newly formed partnership of CBS and Westinghouse Broadcasting announced a multi-station trade involving stations in Philadelphia, Denver and Salt Lake City plus transmitting facilities in Miami.

On April 19, 2012 Ameren Missouri and Westinghouse Electric Company announced their intent to seek federal funding for a new generation of nuclear reactors to be installed at the Callaway site.

On May 27, 2008, SCE & G and Santee Cooper announced an engineering, procurement and construction ( EPC ) contract had been reached with Westinghouse.

Lavalin announced its intent to sell off its stake in UTDC, and several companies expressed an interest, including Asea Brown Boveri and Westinghouse.

South Carolina Electric & Gas announced on February 10, 2006 that it chose Westinghouse for a plant to be built at the V. C.

The criticism increased when Jensen was forced to retire, in 1995, shortly after Westinghouse announced it was buying CBS.

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.

He was later hired by Westinghouse company to service their steam engines.

* In 1972, the first active-matrix liquid crystal display panel was produced in the United States by Westinghouse, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The result was Federally-created monopolies in radio for GE and the Westinghouse Corporation and in telephone systems for the American Telephone & Telegraph Company.

RCA was allowed to keep its radio factories, and GE and Westinghouse were allowed to compete in that business after 30 months.

Later that year, he won first prize in the International Science Fair for the invention ; he was also recognized by the Westinghouse Talent Search and was personally congratulated by President Lyndon B. Johnson during a White House ceremony.

In 1962, the first commercial superconducting wire, a niobium-titanium alloy, was developed by researchers at Westinghouse, allowing the construction of the first practical superconducting magnets.

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

" 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 ).

Because Westinghouse was angered by the decision, he funded Eighth Amendment-based appeals for inmates set to die in the electric chair, ultimately resulting in Edison providing the generators which powered early electrocutions and testifying successfully on behalf of the state that electrocution was a painless method of execution.

In 1948, the point-contact transistor was independently invented by German physicists Herbert Mataré and Heinrich Welker while working at the Compagnie des Freins et Signaux, a Westinghouse subsidiary located in Paris.

This design was first used commercially in the U. S. in 1886 but Westinghouse was intent on improving the Stanley design to make it ( unlike the Z. B. D.

Westinghouse applied for a patent for the new design in December 1886 ; it was granted in July 1887.

After winning a Westinghouse Talent Search scholarship, Knuth enrolled at the Case Institute of Technology ( now Case Western Reserve University ), where his performance was so outstanding that the faculty voted to award him a master of science upon his completion of the baccalaureate degree.

In 1919, the British Westinghouse electrical company was taken over as the Metropolitan Vickers Electrical Company ; Metrovick.

Westinghouse applied for a patent for the new design in December 1886 ; it was granted in July 1887.

Ownership of the rights to the Tesla patents was a key advantage to the Westinghouse Company in offering a complete alternating current power system for both lighting and power.

The Westinghouse lightbulb was invented by Reginald Fessenden, later to be the first person to transmit voice by radio.

Following the success of the Tesla-Westinghouse exhibit, the Westinghouse Company was awarded the contract to build the power plant at Niagara Falls.

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.