Anecdotes and Reminiscences of George Westinghouse, 1846-1914, Contributed by His Former Associates
Author : Charles Felton Scott
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Release : 1939
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Author : Charles Felton Scott
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File Size : 16,13 MB
Release : 1939
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Author : William R. Huber
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,73 MB
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1476644144
While most know Thomas Edison for his invention of the light bulb, his counterpart, George Westinghouse, is too often overlooked. Westinghouse, however, became known as one of the most prolific inventors and businessmen of the Industrial Revolution. This biography reveals the man whose teachers suspected was mentally disabled and who quit college after one semester, yet founded more than 60 different companies employing 50,000 people, and received 361 U.S. patents. He later fought the "Battle of the Currents" (AC vs. DC) with Thomas Edison and won. Westinghouse, with his engineers, provided power and light for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. They harnessed the massive power of Niagara Falls and sent it over wires to light Buffalo and eventually the Northeast. His electric engines powered trains, and his air brakes stopped them. His scientific contributions forever changed the world.
Author : Charity Vogel
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 27,9 MB
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0801469759
On December 18, 1867, the Buffalo and Erie Railroad’s eastbound New York Express derailed as it approached the high truss bridge over Big Sister Creek, just east of the small settlement of Angola, New York, on the shores of Lake Erie. The last two cars of the express train were pitched completely off the tracks and plummeted into the creek bed below. When they struck bottom, one of the wrecked cars was immediately engulfed in flames as the heating stoves in the coach spilled out coals and ignited its wooden timbers. The other car was badly smashed. About fifty people died at the bottom of the gorge or shortly thereafter, and dozens more were injured. Rescuers from the small rural community responded with haste, but there was almost nothing they could do but listen to the cries of the dying—and carry away the dead and injured thrown clear of the fiery wreck. The next day and in the weeks that followed, newspapers across the country carried news of the "Angola Horror," one of the deadliest railway accidents to that point in U.S. history. In a dramatic historical narrative, Charity Vogel tells the gripping, true-to-life story of the wreck and the characters involved in the tragic accident. Her tale weaves together the stories of the people—some unknown; others soon to be famous—caught up in the disaster, the facts of the New York Express’s fateful run, the fiery scenes in the creek ravine, and the subsequent legal, legislative, and journalistic search for answers to the question: what had happened at Angola, and why? The Angola Horror is a classic story of disaster and its aftermath, in which events coincide to produce horrific consequences and people are forced to respond to experiences that test the limits of their endurance. Vogel sets the Angola Horror against a broader context of the developing technology of railroads, the culture of the nation’s print media, the public policy legislation of the post–Civil War era, and, finally, the culture of death and mourning in the Victorian period. The Angola Horror sheds light on the psyche of the American nation. The fatal wreck of an express train nine years later, during a similar bridge crossing in Ashtabula, Ohio, serves as a chilling coda to the story.
Author : Harold F. Peterson
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 28,49 MB
Release : 1977-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780873953467
Called "one of the three most successful envoys to South America during the nation's first 150 years," Buchanan served under four presidents.
Author : Arthur Warren
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 39,74 MB
Release : 2012-01
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ISBN : 9781290101110
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
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Page : 32 pages
File Size : 23,1 MB
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Author : Arthur Warren
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Page : 48 pages
File Size : 38,78 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Engineers
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Author : George Westinghouse
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Page : 36 pages
File Size : 11,74 MB
Release : 1946
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Author : Engineering Societies Library
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Page : 918 pages
File Size : 44,5 MB
Release : 1963
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Author : Westinghouse Electric Corporation
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Page : 36 pages
File Size : 30,82 MB
Release : 1986
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