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Steam turbine generator: The first commercial Westinghouse steam turbine-driven generator, a 1,500 kW unit, began operation at Hartford Electric Light Co. in 1901. The machine, nicknamed Mary-Ann, was the first steam turbine generator to be installed by an electric utility to generate electricity in the US.
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.
The Westinghouse Combustion Turbine Systems Division (CTSD), part of Westinghouse Electric Corporation's [1] Westinghouse Power Generation [2] group, was originally located, along with the Steam Turbine Division (STD), in a major industrial manufacturing complex, referred to as the South Philadelphia Works, in Lester, Pennsylvania near to the Philadelphia International Airport.
2 8-cyl. driving 2 200kw Westinghouse auxiliary generators; 268A NM (8 Cylinder) 278 (6, 8, 12, 16 Cylinder) 24 of 95 Auk-class minesweepers (2 x 1,766shp 12-cylinder electric drive. single reduction gear, 2 shafts) 10 of 29 Cherokee-class tugboats. 4 × 12-278 diesel-electric, 1 × Fairbanks Morse reduction gears, 1 shaft 3,000shp
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Westinghouse's initial customer for the power from the hydroelectric generators at the Edward Dean Adams Station at Niagara in 1895 were the plants of the Pittsburgh Reduction Company which needed large quantities of cheap electricity for smelting aluminum. [48] On November 16, 1896, electrical power transmitted to Buffalo began powering its ...
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