Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company

Institutional History

Abstract

The Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company was founded by George Westinghouse in 1889. The main function of the company was to develop and produce apparatus for the generation, transmission and application of alternating current electricity. In 1945, it was renamed the Westinghouse Electric Corporation.

Important Dates

1889Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company founded, Pittsburgh (Pa.).

1915 – 1945Joseph Slepian was on staff.

1917 – 1917F. Wheeler Loomis was on staff.

1917 – 1919Arthur Compton was on staff.

1919 – 1920F. Wheeler Loomis was on staff.

1922 – 1927Stephen Timoshenko was on staff.

1930 – 1934Francis Bitter was on staff.

1937 – 1939Howard Emmons was on staff.

1937 – 1945Edward Condon was on staff.

1941 – 1945Theodore Holstein was on staff.

1945Westinghouse Electric & Manufacture Company was renamed the Westinghouse Electric Corporation.

1945 – 1945George Pake was on staff.

Places

Headquarters

Pittsburgh (Pa.)

Subjects

Electricity.

Physics -- Industrial applications.

Citations

Historical information from "The Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company" webpage (https://www.loc.gov/collections/films-of-westinghouse-works-1904/articles-and-essays/the-westinghouse-world/the-westinghouse-electric-and-manufacturing-company/).

Relationships

People

Employees & Officers

Bitter, Francis, 1902-1967

Research Engineer and Consultant.

Compton, Arthur Holly, 1892-1962

Research Engineer, Westinghouse Lamp Company.

Condon, Edward Uhler, 1902-1974

Associate Director, Research Laboratories

Emmons, H. W. (Howard W.)

Research Engineer.

Everhart, Thomas E.

Fellow Scientist, Research Laboratories.

Holstein, Theodore David, 1915-1985

Fellow, Research Laboratories and Research Physicist.

Kusch, Polykarp, 1911-1993

Development Engineer.

Loomis, F. W. (Francis Wheeler), 1889-1976

Research Physicist, Lamp Division.

Pake, G. E. (George Edward)

Junior Engineer.

Slepian, Joseph, 1891-

Apprentice, Railway Motor Department; Member, Research Department; Head, General Research Section; Research Consulting Engineer; and Associate Director, Research.

Timoshenko, Stephen, 1878-1972

Research Engineer, Westinghouse Research Laboratory.

Associates & Members

Bargmann, V. (Valentine), 1908-1989

Compton, Betty Charity McCloskey, 1916-

Gould, Gordon, 1920-2005

Leverenz, Humboldt W.

Ohl, Russell S.

Rowland, Henry Augustus, 1848-1901

Seitz, Frederick, 1911-2008

Spitzer, Lyman, 1914-1997

Institutions

Institutional Hierarchy

Westinghouse Electric Corporation

Name changed in 1945.

Resources

Archival Resources

Author

Press releases and photographs relating to the 200-inch telescope, 1938.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Trade catalogs of scientific and industrial instruments, 1846-1943.

Library. Dept. of Special Collections

University of California, Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA

Subject

Henry Augustus Rowland papers, 1793-1970.

Special Collections. Milton S. Eisenhower Library.

Johns Hopkins University

3400 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21218, USA

Oral history interview with Betty Compton, 1968 April 11 and 15.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Edward Uhler Condon, 1967 October 17, 18, 1968 April 27, 1973 September 11 and 12.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Frederick Seitz, 1981 January 26, 27, March 24 and 1982 March 16.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Gordon Gould, 1983 April 8 and October 23.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Humboldt Walter Leverenz, 1979 July 10.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Lyman Spitzer, Jr., 1978 March 15.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Russell S. Ohl, 1976 August 19 and 20.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Valentine Bargmann, 1984 April 12.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA