george westinghouse in a sentence
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- "George Westinghouse must be spinning in his grave, " said Matthew Marlin, an economics professor at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh.
- Westinghouse, founded in 1886 by George Westinghouse, installed the first alternating-current power system in 1891, creating the standard for electrical power.
- He looks on at three panels that represent the life of George Westinghouse and is presumed to draw inspiration from them.
- Last month, three other high schools joined the list : Newtown Annex in Queens, and Bushwick and George Westinghouse in Brooklyn.
- Rockwell International also drew on the strengths of several of George Westinghouse's concerns, and Westinghouse is considered a co-founder of the company.
- Two selective enrollment high schools are located on the West Side : George Westinghouse College Prep and Whitney M . Young College Prep.
- A macabre economic feud between two prominent inventors, Thomas Alva Edison and George Westinghouse, played an important role in developing the electric chair.
- His patented AC induction motor and transformer were licensed by George Westinghouse, who also hired Tesla for a short time as a consultant.
- "We did it to get a togetherness in the school, " said Osei Stanley, 15, a sophomore at George Westinghouse High School in Brooklyn.
- This method of controlling the brakes on freight and passenger cars has been virtually the same since its invention by George Westinghouse in 1868.