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.

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.

When adopted, the Westinghouse system had a major effect on railroad safety.

When he died on January 30, 1910 in New York City he had become an admired and well respected inventor, having sold a number of his devices to such giants as Westinghouse, General Electric and American Engineering-more importantly the world knew him as the Black Thomas Edison

When General Electric and Westinghouse Electric Company formed the " Board of Patent Control " in 1896, to coordinate patent licensing and litigation, Latimer was employed as chief draftsman.

When Westinghouse merged with CBS outright on November 24, 1995, WBZ-TV became a CBS-owned and operated station.

When Coach Dimperio started at Westinghouse the student body was mostly the children of Italian immigrants, but by the late 1950s it was almost 100 % African American.

When he graduated, he began as a corporate writer for Westinghouse Electric and then worked for a New York engineering firm for a few years.

When they discovered this was not the case and they ultimately lost the bidding to Intel, Siemens decided to create the Siemens Foundation to continue the tradition using the well-known Westinghouse name, calling the new competition the Siemens Westinghouse Competition ( SWC ) and, later, the Siemens Competition.

When Westinghouse balked, NBC threatened to pull its programming from WPTZ and Boston's WBZ-TV unless Westinghouse agreed to swap its Philadelphia stations for NBC's WTAM-AM-FM and WNBK in Cleveland.

When Andrew Carnegie left the railroad to start Carnegie Steel, Pitcairn replaced Carnegie as general agent and superintendent of the Pittsburgh division of the Pennsylvania Railroad. He was also a friend and financial backer of George Westinghouse.

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 .").

When not being used as a theatrical venue, the building also has been leased to CBS Radio and the Westinghouse Corporation.

When he regained consciousness he was in Lord's house, in the office of Doctor Lord, the deputy's deceased father.

When Ursicinus lost his office and the favour of Constantius, Ammianus seems to have shared his downfall ; but under Julian, Constantius's successor, he regained his position.

When the English finally regained control of New Netherland they forced, as a punishment unique in the history of the British Empire, the English common law upon all the colonists, including the Dutch.

When he regained the lead broadcaster position on NBC, he continued to call play-by-play for both networks until the end of NBC's coverage in 2002.

When he regained consciousness his eyesight was ruined, leaving him myopic for the rest of his life.

When France regained the ceded departments after World War I, the Territoire de Belfort was not reintegrated into Haut-Rhin.

When General Amherst heard of this surprise action, he immediately dispatched troops under his nephew William Amherst, who regained control of Newfoundland after the Battle of Signal Hill in September 1762.

When the Calverts regained control of Maryland, the Act was reinstated, before being repealed permanently in 1692 following the Glorious Revolution.

When white Democrats regained power, they passed laws that made voter registration more inaccessible to blacks.

When the Dutch regained power in 1784, they moved their colonial capital to Longchamps, which they renamed Stabroeck.

When Bourbon Democrats regained power in 1882, they returned the state government to Baton Rouge, where it has since remained.

When they regained power in February, 1980, Chrétien was appointed Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada.

When the XERF signal lost its strength it seldom regained it.

When the Republicans gained control of the House after the 1952 elections, Reece served as chairman of the Special Committee on Tax Exempt Foundations, losing this post after the Democrats regained control in 1955.

When Warner regained consciousness, he was enraged by reports of his son's behavior, and their " tenuous " relationship came to an end.

When King Louis XVIII came to the throne in 1816, each class regained the title of " Académie "; accordingly, the second class of the Institut became the Académie française.

When Poland regained independence in 1918, there were 39 natural reserves established within its borders.

When the chieftain of the Heruli, Odoacer, deposed Western Emperor Romulus Augustus, sending the imperial regalia to Constantinople, Zeno had just regained his throne, and he could only appoint Odoacer dux of Italy, thereby ending the Western Roman Empire.

When the later Abbasids regained military control over Iraq, they also relied on the military slaves called Ghilman.

When France regained control of Martinique, Napoléon Bonaparte reinstated slavery.

When Norway regained national independence from Denmark in 1814, the Norwegian Constitution recognized the Lutheran church as the State Church.

When the castle was captured, Valdermar had virtually regained control over all of Scania, and when Magnus proved to be unable to retake the province by force, it simply passed back to Danish rule.

When self-propelled artillery, the armoured personnel carrier, the wheeled cargo vehicle, and supporting aviation — all with adequate communications — were combined to constitute the modern armored division, commanders regained the capability of maneuver.

When he wished to use the mule again, he poured water on it from his mouth and the mule regained its form.

When King Henry VI regained the throne for a brief period ( 1470 – 1471 ), Tiptoft was captured and beheaded.

When the Know-nothings get control, it will read, All men are created equal except Negroes and foreigners and Catholics.

When he finally got the coughing under control, he realized that Pete ( all he gave was his first name ) was still waiting for an answer -- he didn't even seem to wink as he continued to stare.

When infants are taught to sign, parents are able to converse with them at a developmental stage when they are not yet capable of producing vocal speech, which requires fine control of both breathing and the vocal tract.

When the Jacobin faction seized control of the Revolutionary government in 1792, Jean-Jacques Ampère resisted the new political tides, and he was guillotined on November 24, 1793, as part of the Jacobin purges of the period.

When his district was redrawn by the Whigs, that party had won the past two gubernatorial elections, in addition to gaining control of the legislature.

When they lost control of Assyria itself, the name Syria survived and was applied only to the land of Aramea to the west, that had once been part of the Assyrian empire.

When problems with poor control at high speed were first encountered, they were addressed by designing a new style of control surface with more power.

When Heureux and Mercure had cut their anchor cables to escape the exploding Orient, their crews had panicked and neither captain ( both of whom were wounded ) had managed to regain control of their ship.

When animators or interface designers talk about the " physics " or " feel " of an operation, they may be referring to the particular Bézier curve used to control the velocity over time of the move in question.

When Havana surrendered, the admiral of the British fleet, George Keppel, the 3rd Earl of Albemarle, entered the city as a conquering new governor and took control of the whole western part of the island.

When Chiang was defeated by CPC forces in mainland China in 1949, he retreated to Taiwan with his government and his most disciplined troops, along with most of the KMT leadership and a large number of their supporters ; Chiang Kai-shek had taken effective control of Taiwan at the end of WWII as part of the overall Japanese surrender, when Japanese troops in Taiwan surrendered to Republic of China troops.

When informal relationships and sanctions prove insufficient to establish and maintain a desired social order, a government or a state may impose more formalized or stricter systems of social control.

When Azali took power he also pledged to step down in April 2000 and relinquish control to a democratically elected president — a pledge with mixed results.

When he suspected that the American Office of Strategic Services ( forerunner of the CIA ) was showing an interest in seizing control of Chiang's regime, Chiang ordered the plotters arrested and executed.

When a device is designed to perform without the need of human inputs for correction it is called automatic control ( such as cruise control for regulating a car's speed ).

When ice forms on the beds, trucks can be driven onto the ice to spread a thin layer of sand that helps to control pests and rejuvenate the vines.

When the appropriate conditions above are satisfied a system is said to be asymptotically stable: the variables of an asymptotically stable control system always decrease from their initial value and do not show permanent oscillations.

When one society finds itself forced to relinquish power entirely to another society that in itself is a form of underdevelopment .... During the centuries of pre-colonial trade, some control over social political and economic life was retained in Africa, in spite of the disadvantageous commerce with Europeans.

When Dave Wesely entered the service in 1970, his friend and fellow Napoleonics wargamer Dave Arneson began a medieval variation of Wesely's Braunstein games, where players control individuals instead of armies.

When he encountered opposition from the services, he used government control of military spending to force the change through, stating " Wherever Federal Funds are expended, I do not see now any American can justify a descrimination of those funds.

When Faubus balked, the president placed the Arkansas National Guard under federal control and sent in the 101st Airborne Division.

When the Democrats took control of the Senate in December 1845, they chose Atchison as President pro tempore, placing him third in succession for the Presidency, and also giving him the duty of presiding over the Senate when the Vice President was absent.