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2. Westinghouse Electric Corporation - Wikipedia

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   1884 – George Westinghouse begins developing a DC electric lighting system; 1885 – Westinghouse becomes aware of the new European transformer based alternating current systems when he reads about them in the UK technical journal Engineering [34] 1885 – William Stanley, Jr., working for Westinghouse, develops the first practical AC ...

3. Westinghouse Lamp Plant - Wikipedia

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   The Westinghouse Lamp Plant located in Bloomfield, New Jersey, was one of the lamp manufacturing plants of Westinghouse Electric Corporation. [1] The plant had a major involvement in supplying uranium metal for the world's first self-sustaining chain reaction in Chicago ( Chicago Pile-1 ) in the early phase of the Manhattan Project to create ...

4. Westinghouse Electric Company - Wikipedia

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   Westinghouse Electrique France is located in Orsay and Manosque near Marseille (engineering development). As of 2014, about 400 employees are part of Westinghouse in France. Westinghouse owns a nuclear fuel fabrication plant at Västerås, Sweden which has provided nuclear fuel for Russian VVER-1000 nuclear reactors.

5. Edison screw - Wikipedia

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   230/240-volt incandescent light bulb with E27 screw baseEdison screw (ES) is a standard lightbulb socket for electric light bulbs. It was developed by Thomas Edison (1847–1931), patented in 1881, [1] and was licensed in 1909 under General Electric's Mazda trademark.

6. War of the currents - Wikipedia

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   The war of the currents was a series of events surrounding the introduction of competing electric power transmission systems in the late 1880s and early 1890s. It grew out of two lighting systems developed in the late 1870s and early 1880s: arc lamp street lighting running on high-voltage alternating current (AC), and large-scale low-voltage direct current (DC) indoor incandescent lighting ...

7. Westinghouse Sign - Wikipedia

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   The Westinghouse Sign was the first computer-controlled sign in the United States. Located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania , the large animated display advertised the Westinghouse Electric Company , and was best known for the seemingly endless number of combinations in which its individual elements could be illuminated.