Essays Tagged: "George Westinghouse"
A Technological Revelation: this report takes you through specific technology and how it advanced how we live.
lroads adopted a national system of time zones to improve scheduling." A big event in 1869 was when George Westinghouse developedmore effective air brakes slowly safety was improving. In 1887 telegrap ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Technology
Book Report on Blood Tracks by Karen Rose Cercone.
that the victim is not just a run of the hobo, but the 1905 inventor of the year. They decide that George Westinghouse would know who he is because he is an avid inventor.Soon after Milo and Taggart ... ey are going to do. Milo replies I've got a plan to lure out the killer, but it is going to require George Westinghouse himself. To find out what happens to Milo and Helen and who the true murder is, ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Industrialization and Economy
s revolutionized transportation and communication and brought Americans together. Inventors such as George Westinghouse designed air brakes; this improved the system for stopping trains. This made tra ... oods. Gustave Swift developed refrigerated cars, good for transporting meats and other perishables. George Pullman developed the Pullman sleeping car. This was for over night journeys, improved dining ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Nikola Tesla: The Forgotten Father of Technology
fused and quit working for General Electric, Edison's company (Dommermuth-Costa 62-63).In May 1885, George Westinghouse, head of the Westinghouse Electric Company in Pittsburgh, bought the patent righ ... and patents how could Tesla eventually die impoverished and forgotten? Tesla sold the AC patents to George Westinghouse for about $250,000. Tesla would have made at least 10 times that amount in royal ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Technology
John Nash: Madman Mathematician
once tried to electrocute his sister with a chair wired to batteries.Nash won a scholarship in the George Westinghouse Competition and was accepted to the Carnegie Institute of Technology (Carnegie-M ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Mathematics
George Westinghouse.
George Westinghouse, Jr., was the son of a man who made farm machinery in New York. Today George is ... trial Revolution with his determined attitude towards resolving social and commercial difficulties. George's creations changed society's life. It affected the economy and how one travels.On October 6, ... test his creativity in his father's shop. Over a period of time when he was asked to cut some pipe, George started to experiment and in a result he designed a powered device that could cut the pipes a ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Nikola Teala: The Electrical Genius.
activity and Tesla was soon receiving invitations to lecture. He turned out to be a natural speaker.George Westinghouse became worn down financially by Edison's anti-alternating current initiatives. A ... e to get new funding was his contract with Tesla to pay him $2.50 for each horsepower manufactured. George Westinghouse appealed to Tesla to relinquish his claim to the patents. Tesla, interested in s ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History
American History
vering oil in Texas Edwin Drake: Used a steam engine to drill for oil near Titusville, Pennsylvania.George Westinghouse: made electricity safer, and cheaper.Christopher Sholes: Invented the typewriter ... Pioneer mail order shopping Guglielmo Marconi: wireless telegram Levi Strauss: 1st denim blue jeans George Pullman: built a factory for manufacturing sleeping cars for trains Andrew Carnegie: STEEL KI ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers
The History Of Turtle Creek, PA
ayside Inn. That rest stop was here back in the 1750's and is actually mentioned in the journals of George Washington when he was sent to survey this area for the English government. A small village g ... e identity of this Delaware Indian tribe. General Braddock was sent from Virginia along with George Washington and a small army to capture Fort Duquesne from the French. Washington had traveled ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
The 'War of Currents'
The competition between George Westinghouse and Thomas Edison to supply electricity to cities in the late 1880s is often cal ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Physics