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  2. Westinghouse Electric Company - Wikipedia

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    Westinghouse Electric Company LLC is an American nuclear power company formed in 1999 from the nuclear power division of the original Westinghouse Electric Corporation. [3] It offers nuclear products and services to utilities internationally, including nuclear fuel, service and maintenance, instrumentation, control and design of nuclear power ...

  3. Great Northern Z-1 - Wikipedia

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    The Great Northern Z-1 was a class of ten electric locomotives built for the Great Northern Railway [2] They were used to work the route through the second Cascade Tunnel. They were built between 1926–1928 by Baldwin Locomotive Works, with Westinghouse electrics, and stayed in service until dieselisation in 1956.

  4. New England Westinghouse Company - Wikipedia

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    The New England Westinghouse Company is a former division of Westinghouse Electric. It was founded in 1915 in East Springfield, Massachusetts. [1] Its primary purpose was to fulfill a contract to produce 1.8 million Mosin–Nagant rifles for Czar Nicholas II of Russia during World War I. [2] In order to produce the rifles, they purchased the J ...

  5. Frontier (banknotes) - Wikipedia

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    The primary impetus for the new banknotes was "the need to stay ahead of counterfeiters". [2] [3] By 2002, 10% of retailers in some parts of Canada refused to accept the $100 banknotes of the 1986 Birds of Canada series in financial transactions, [4] and by 2004, the counterfeit ratio for Canadian currency had risen to 470 parts per million (ppm). [5]

  6. Fancy Serial Numbers Turn Dollar Bills Into Pricey Collectors ...

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    Low numbers: 00000001 is most prized, but 00000002 to 00000100 are considered valuable. "Ladders": A sequential serial number, like 12345678 or 32109876. Palindromes: Say, 45288254 or 02100120 ...

  7. Westinghouse Electric Corporation - Wikipedia

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    Westinghouse Electric was founded by George Westinghouse in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on January 8, 1886. Building on the advancement of AC technology in Europe, [12] the firm became active in developing alternating current (AC) electric infrastructure throughout the United States. The company's largest factories were located in East Pittsburgh ...

  8. Where's George? - Wikipedia

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    The serial number for the central bill has been redacted out, which is commonly done to prevent people from entering the bill into the system without physically possessing it. The Where's George? site says it "prohibits trading or exchanging bills with friends, family or anyone known to the bill distributor for the purpose of re-entry".

  9. Pennsylvania Railroad class R1 - Wikipedia

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    18,750 lbf (83.4 kN) at 100 mph (160 km/h) Career. Numbers. 4800, later 4899, later 4999. Retired. 1959. Scrapped. 1959. The Pennsylvania Railroad 's class R1 comprised a single prototype electric locomotive constructed in 1934 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US, with the electrical equipment by Westinghouse.