George Westinghouse
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George Westinghouse Jr. was an American entrepreneur and engineer based in Pennsylvania who created the railway air brake and was a pioneer of the electrical industry, receiving his first patent at the age of 19. Westinghouse saw the potential of using alternating current for electric power distribution in the early 1880s and put all his resources into developing and marketing it. This put Westinghouse's business in direct competition with Thomas Edison, who marketed direct current for electric power distribution. In 1911 Westinghouse received the American Institute of Electrical Engineers's (AIEE) Edison Medal "For meritorious achievement in connection with the development of the alternating current system". He founded the Westinghouse Electric Corporation in 1886.
Westinghouse Electric Company 1888 catalog advertising their "Alternating System"
Aerial view of Niagara Falls, with the American Falls at left and the Canadian Horseshoe Falls on the right
The residence of George Westinghouse in Washington, D.C., from 1901 to 1914
George Westinghouse, c. 1906
Entrepreneurship
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Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value in ways that generally entail beyond the minimal amount of risk, and potentially involving values besides simply economic ones.
Emil Jellinek-Mercedes (1853–1918), here at the steering wheel of his Phoenix Double-Phaeton
In 2012, Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues Melanne Verveer greets participants in an African Women's Entrepreneurship Program at the State Department in Washington, D.C.
Student organizers from the Green Club at Newcomb College Institute formed a social entrepreneurship organization in 2010.
Dell Women's Entrepreneur Network event in New York City