The Westinghouse Electric Corporation was an American manufacturing company founded in 1886 by George Westinghouse and headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was originally named "Westinghouse
1888 Westinghouse brochure advertising their Alternating system
Share of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, issued March 31, 1910
Westinghouse Atom Smasher
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The Westinghouse Atom Smasher was a 5-million-volt Van de Graaff electrostatic nuclear accelerator operated by the Westinghouse Electric Corporation at their Research Laboratories in Forest Hills, Pen
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
…major supplier of generators and steam turbines for most of their history, and were also a major player in the field of nuclear power, starting with the Westinghouse Atom Smasher in 1937. A series of downturns and management missteps in the 1970s and 1980s combined with large cash balances led the company to enter the financial…
The Atom Smasher on May 9, 2010, before the 2015 demolition
A view of the atom smasher in the 1930s or 1940s, when it was operational
The Atom Smasher in 2022, dislodged from its supports