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3 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 -
4 Westinghouse Information Network
abbr. WINинформационная сеть «Уин» фирмы «Вестингауз» ( включает СКП и СПД с низкоскоростными каналами передачи данных); см. также Westinghouse Link System; Westinghouse Packet-switched NetworkАнгло-русский словарь промышленной и научной лексики > Westinghouse Information Network
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5 Westinghouse cycle electrolysis
электролиз по смешанному циклу «Вестингауз» ( метод электролиза воды с образованием водорода - газообразного топлива); см. также Westinghouse hybrid cycleАнгло-русский словарь промышленной и научной лексики > Westinghouse cycle electrolysis
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6 Westinghouse Packet-switched Network
abbr. WESPACСКП «Уэспак» фирмы «Вестингауз»; см. Westinghouse Information NetworkАнгло-русский словарь промышленной и научной лексики > Westinghouse Packet-switched Network
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7 Westinghouse-sulfur cycle
Англо-русский словарь промышленной и научной лексики > Westinghouse-sulfur cycle
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8 Westinghouse-Bremse
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9 Westinghouse 2 Channel FM Wireless Intercom
Engineering: WHI-2CУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > Westinghouse 2 Channel FM Wireless Intercom
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10 Westinghouse Advanced Systems Planning
Military: WASPУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > Westinghouse Advanced Systems Planning
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11 Westinghouse Aerospace Electrical Division
Military: WAEDУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > Westinghouse Aerospace Electrical Division
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12 Westinghouse Air Arm Division
Military: WAADУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > Westinghouse Air Arm Division
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13 Westinghouse Air Brake Company
1) Engineering: WABCO2) NYSE. WABУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > Westinghouse Air Brake Company
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14 Westinghouse Astronuclear Laboratory
Engineering: WANLУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > Westinghouse Astronuclear Laboratory
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15 Westinghouse Atomic Power Division
Engineering: WAPDУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > Westinghouse Atomic Power Division
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16 Westinghouse Canada Limited
Engineering: WCLУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > Westinghouse Canada Limited
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17 Westinghouse Commercial Atomic Power Report
Engineering: WCAPУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > Westinghouse Commercial Atomic Power Report
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18 Westinghouse Defense Center
Military: WDCУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > Westinghouse Defense Center
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19 Westinghouse Defense and Electronics Center
Military: WDECУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > Westinghouse Defense and Electronics Center
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20 Westinghouse Distributed Processing Family
Computers: WDPFУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > Westinghouse Distributed Processing Family
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