Westinghouse

Westinghouse may refer to:

In current companies:

• Westinghouse Licensing, the brand management division of CBS Corporation, and its licensees:
  • Westinghouse Electric Company LLC, providing nuclear power related services.
  • Westinghouse Digital LLC, selling LED and LCD televisions
  • Salton, Inc., licensed to make small appliances such as vacuum cleaners under the Westinghouse name, from 2002 to 2008
  • Westinghouse Lighting Corporation, formerly Angelo Brothers Company, selling lamps, lamp fixtures, and ceiling fans.
• Westinghouse Rail Systems Ltd, formerly Westinghouse Signals Ltd, part of Invensys

In prior companies and divisions:

• Westinghouse Electric (1886), renamed CBS Corporation in 1997
  • Westinghouse Broadcasting (Group W), now integrated into CBS Broadcasting, Inc.
  • White-Westinghouse, acquired by Electrolux in 1986
  • Westinghouse Electronic Systems Group, sold to Northrop Grumman in 1996
  • British Westinghouse, later subsumed into The General Electric Company
  • Cathode Ray Tube Division, closed in mid-70's; site later used by Toshiba to manufacture television CRTs until 2004
  • Electronic Tube Division, and ...
  • Industrial and Government Tube Division, spun off as Imaging and Sensing Technologies Corporation in 1988
• Westinghouse Air Brake Company, founding name of WABCO
• Westinghouse Brake and Signal Company Ltd (1928–c.2000)
• Westinghouse Signals, earlier name of Westinghouse Rail Systems
• Westinghouse Brakes (UK), now part of Knorr-Bremse
• Westinghouse Combustion Turbine Systems Division, a facility near the Philadelphia airport later home to an industrial park “Westinghouse Park”
• Westinghouse Aviation Gas Turbine Division, maker of the J-series of turbojet engines
• Westinghouse Astronuclear Laboratory, late 1950s; Large, Pennsylvania; nuclear space propulsion technologies
• Westinghouse Advanced Energy Systems Division, a re-named 1977 successor to Westinghouse Astronuclear Lab

In places:

• George Westinghouse Bridge, East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• George Westinghouse, Jr., Birthplace and Boyhood Home, Central Bridge, New York
• Westinghouse Park, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• Westinghouse Air Brake Company General Office Building, Wilmerding , Pennsylvania
• George Westinghouse Jones House, Niskayuna, New York, home of a cousin and associate of George Westinghouse

In competitions

• former Westinghouse Science Talent Search, now called Intel Science Talent Search - an American science competition for high school students

In science:

• Westinghouse effect, a variant of the social-scientific observer's paradox

People with the surname Westinghouse

• George Westinghouse, founder of Westinghouse Electric Corporation

In products:

• The Westinghouse J34, J30, J40, J46 and other Westinghouse Aviation Gas Turbine Division turbojets
• The Milwaukee Road class EP-3 "Quill" electric locomotives built in 1919 by Baldwin and Westinghouse, and other Westinghouse locomotives
• Westinghouse Electric Company's AP1000, the first Generation III+ reactor to receive final design approval from the U.S
• Westinghouse Farm Engine, a small, vertical boilered farm engine made by George Westinghouse from 1886 to 1917
• NZR RM class Westinghouse railcar, an experimental and inaugural railcar built in New Zealand in 1914

In media:

• Westinghouse Studio One, Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse and Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse, American television series

• Twelve Angry Men (Westinghouse Studio One)
• List of Westinghouse Studio One episodes

• The Westinghouse Sign, a large, animated, electric sign located in Pittsburgh
• Westinghouse Works, 1904, a collection of short films of various Westinghouse manufacturing plants

See also

• Westinghouse High School (disambiguation)
• George Westinghouse Award (disambiguation)
• Siemens Power Generation, the acquired non-nuclear energy divisions of Westinghouse Electric

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