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1 Westinghouse Air Brake Company
1) Engineering: WABCO2) NYSE. WABУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > Westinghouse Air Brake Company
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2 Westinghouse, George
[br]b. 6 October 1846 Central Bridge, New York, USAd. 12 March 1914 New York, New York, USA[br]American inventor and entrepreneur, pioneer of air brakes for railways and alternating-current distribution of electricity.[br]George Westinghouse's father was an ingenious manufacturer of agricultural implements; the son, after a spell in the Union Army during the Civil War, and subsequently in the Navy as an engineer, went to work for his father. He invented a rotary steam engine, which proved impracticable; a rerailing device for railway rolling stock in 1865; and a cast-steel frog for railway points, with longer life than the cast-iron frogs then used, in 1868–9. During the same period Westinghouse, like many other inventors, was considering how best to meet the evident need for a continuous brake for trains, i.e. one by which the driver could apply the brakes on all vehicles in a train simultaneously instead of relying on brakesmen on individual vehicles. By chance he encountered a magazine article about the construction of the Mont Cenis Tunnel, with a description of the pneumatic tools invented for it, and from this it occurred to him that compressed air might be used to operate the brakes along a train.The first prototype was ready in 1869 and the Westinghouse Air Brake Company was set up to manufacture it. However, despite impressive demonstration of the brake's powers when it saved the test train from otherwise certain collision with a horse-drawn dray on a level crossing, railways were at first slow to adopt it. Then in 1872 Westinghouse added to it the triple valve, which enabled the train pipe to charge reservoirs beneath each vehicle, from which the compressed air would apply the brakes when pressure in the train pipe was reduced. This meant that the brake was now automatic: if a train became divided, the brakes on both parts would be applied. From then on, more and more American railways adopted the Westinghouse brake and the Railroad Safety Appliance Act of 1893 made air brakes compulsory in the USA. Air brakes were also adopted in most other parts of the world, although only a minority of British railway companies took them up, the remainder, with insular reluctance, preferring the less effective vacuum brake.From 1880 Westinghouse was purchasing patents relating to means of interlocking railway signals and points; he combined them with his own inventions to produce a complete signalling system. The first really practical power signalling scheme, installed in the USA by Westinghouse in 1884, was operated pneumatically, but the development of railway signalling required an awareness of the powers of electricity, and it was probably this that first led Westinghouse to become interested in electrical processes and inventions. The Westinghouse Electric Company was formed in 1886: it pioneered the use of electricity distribution systems using high-voltage single-phase alternating current, which it developed from European practice. Initially this was violently opposed by established operators of direct-current distribution systems, but eventually the use of alternating current became widespread.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsLégion d'honneur. Order of the Crown of Italy. Order of Leopold.BibliographyWestinghouse took out some 400 patents over forty-eight years.Further ReadingH.G.Prout, 1922, A Life of "George Westinghouse", London (biography inclined towards technicalities).F.E.Leupp, 1918, George Westinghouse: His Life and Achievements, Boston (London 1919) (biography inclined towards Westinghouse and his career).J.F.Stover, 1961, American Railroads, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 152–4.PJGR -
3 Westinghouse, George
(1846-1914) Вестингауз, ДжорджИзобретатель и промышленник. В 1869 изобрел пневматический тормоз [ air brake] для железнодорожных составов. В 1885 разработал систему промышленного производства и передачи на расстояние переменного тока. В 1886 основал компанию "Вестингауз электрик" [ Westinghouse Electric Company] по производству электрооборудования на переменном токе. Получил более 400 патентов. В 1955 был избран в национальную Галерею славы [ Hall of Fame]English-Russian dictionary of regional studies > Westinghouse, George
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4 WAB
1) Спорт: We Are Best2) Железнодорожный термин: Norfolk Southern Railway Company3) Университет: We Are The Best, Western Academy Of Beijing4) Сетевые технологии: Web Address Book5) NYSE. Westinghouse Air Brake Company6) Программное обеспечение: Windows Address Book -
5 Wab
1) Спорт: We Are Best2) Железнодорожный термин: Norfolk Southern Railway Company3) Университет: We Are The Best, Western Academy Of Beijing4) Сетевые технологии: Web Address Book5) NYSE. Westinghouse Air Brake Company6) Программное обеспечение: Windows Address Book -
6 wab
1) Спорт: We Are Best2) Железнодорожный термин: Norfolk Southern Railway Company3) Университет: We Are The Best, Western Academy Of Beijing4) Сетевые технологии: Web Address Book5) NYSE. Westinghouse Air Brake Company6) Программное обеспечение: Windows Address Book -
7 WABCO
1) Военный термин: when authorized by commander2) Техника: Westinghouse Air Brake Company
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