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Westinghouse and built
The Deep Star III built by General Dynamics and an unnamed two-man submersible built by Westinghouse were scheduled to sail but never did.
In 1954, NNS, together with Westinghouse and the Navy, developed and built a prototype nuclear reactor for a carrier propulsion system.
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.
In 1889, the Willamette Falls hydro-electric generation facility in Oregon uses Westinghouse generators and an AC transmission system Four turbine driven dynamos were built on the east end of the falls.
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.
Advanced systems were later developed and built for special military purposes, such as to find H-Bombs lost at sea or to find a lost Russian submarine, at the Westinghouse facility in Annapolis up through the 1990s.
When Nikola Tesla, for whom a memorial was later built at Niagara Falls, New York, U. S. A., invented the three-phase system of alternating current power transmission, distant transfer of electricity became possible, as Westinghouse and Tesla had built the AC-power Ames Hydroelectric Generating Plant and proved it effective.
* Elektro, eight robots built by the Westinghouse Corporation in Mansfield.
Under a contract from the US Air Force's RADC research arm, they had built a breadboard prototype machine in 1964, but the RADC contract ended and Westinghouse decided not to follow it up on their own.
* The Milwaukee Road class EP-3 " Quill " electric locomotives built in 1919 by Baldwin and Westinghouse, and other Westinghouse locomotives
* NZR RM class Westinghouse railcar, an experimental and inaugural railcar built in New Zealand in 1914
This is a specific system with a rotating radar dome " rotodome " radome designed and built by Boeing ( Defense & Space Group ) using Westinghouse ( now Northrop Grumman ) radar.
* 1900: Westinghouse enterprises employ 50, 000 employees ; built the first public-utility steam-turbine generator for Hartford ( Connecticut ) Electric Light Company.
* 1919: Westinghouse built the first U. S .- made diesel-electric marine propulsion plant.
* 1954: Westinghouse built the S2W reactor for the, the world's first nuclear-powered submarine.
* 1960: Westinghouse built the A2W reactor for the, the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.
* 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.
The original eight trains were built by Westinghouse.
With Tesla and his patents, Westinghouse built a power system for a gold mine in Telluride, Colorado in 1891, with a water driven 100 horsepower ( 75 kW ) generator powering a 100 horsepower ( 75 kW ) motor over a 2. 5-mile ( 4 km ) power line.
Of the new turbines and generators, three 600 MW units were built by Westinghouse and three 700 MW units by General Electric.
Baldwin built or subcontracted out the bodywork and running gear, and Westinghouse built the electrical gear.

Westinghouse and FM
Later in the 1940s, Westinghouse moved on to develop FM and television stations as the FCC began to issue permits for those services.
FM radio was, initially, an unsuccessful venture for Westinghouse, and the company would silence most of its FM stations during the 1950s.
When it first opened, the tower included radio station KOAX-FM, now KRLD-FM 105. 3 FM, once owned by Westinghouse Broadcasting (" Live twenty-four hours a day from five-hundred feet above the city .").
After American Radio Systems was acquired by CBS / Westinghouse, the combined company was required to sell two of their FM stations, along with three AM stations.
The 106. 7 frequency in Boston was first used on December 15, 1957 as WBZ-FM, the FM complement to WBZ, under the ownership of Westinghouse Broadcasting.

Westinghouse and sister
( Westinghouse later reclaimed the WJZ callsign when it acquired a Baltimore television station in 1959 ; WJZ-TV in Baltimore, and its sister radio station, are now owned by CBS.
From 1986 to 1992, a series of transactions involving WNEW-FM and its sister radio and television stations, resulted in ownership of WNEW-FM passing from Metromedia to Westinghouse Broadcasting ( former sister stations WNEW-TV became WNYW under News Corporation, and WNEW ( AM ) became WBBR under Bloomberg ).
In addition to George Westinghouse, engineers working for the company included William Stanley, Nikola Tesla, Vladimir Zworykin, Oliver B. Shallenberger, Benjamin Garver Lamme and his sister Bertha Lamme.
WBZ's initial license, for operation in Springfield, was issued by the Department of Commerce to the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company on September 15, 1921 ; it was the first license to specify broadcasts on 360 meters ( 833 kilohertz ), and was subsequently deemed to be the first license for a commercial broadcast station ( although other stations, such as 1XE / WGI in Medford Hillside and sister station KDKA in Pittsburgh, were already broadcasting under different license classifications ).
Channel 4 nearly lost its NBC affiliation in 1955 when Westinghouse balked at NBC's initial offer to trade sister stations KYW radio and WPTZ television ( now KYW-TV ) in Philadelphia in exchange for the network's radio and television combination in Cleveland, Ohio.
In 1997, Westinghouse became CBS Corporation, which would then merge with Viacom ( ironically Paramount's parent since 1994 ) in 2000, making KDKA a sister station with Pittsburgh UPN ( now The CW ) affiliate WNPA-TV ( now WPCW ).
Westinghouse immediately changed the call signs from WDTV to KDKA-TV, making it a sister station to radio station KDKA.
It was previously used for 40 years by KFWB, KNX's historic rival in the news radio wars before both became sister stations in the 1995 merger of Westinghouse Electric ( KFWB's owner ) and CBS.
Angra I was purchased from Westinghouse of the USA ( its sister power plant is Krško Nuclear Power Plant in Slovenia
In 1927 Westinghouse aligned its four radio stations ( KYW, KDKA in Pittsburgh, WBZ in Boston, and WBZA in Springfield, Massachusetts ) with the NBC Blue Network, which originated from former sister station WJZ ( the present-day WABC ) in New York City.
Five months earlier Westinghouse Broadcasting converted WINS, KYW's New York sister station since 1962, from Top-40 to all-news.
Westinghouse Electric announced it was purchasing CBS in 1995, and upon its completion KYW became a sister station to its long-time rival, CBS-owned WGMP ( 1210 AM, now WPHT ).
In 1995, Westinghouse merged with CBS, making WCBS a sister station to its longtime arch rival WINS.
In 1995 Westinghouse Electric purchased CBS, a move which made WINS a sister station to its long-time rival WCBS.
Like its former Westinghouse ( now CBS Radio ) sister stations ( and fellow all-news stations ) WINS in New York and KYW in Philadelphia, KFWB had a running teletype sound effect in the background during regular newscasts.
A year later, CBS merged with Westinghouse Electric Corporation, thus making 1210 AM a sister station to its ancient rival, KYW.

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