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1.) Unraveling the Genius of Nicola Tesla
Over one day ago | Fri Aug 22 0:02:00 PDT 2008
Despite his successes, Tesla found himself stuck in the middle of an electrical power war between Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse. The DC verses AC dispute nearly bankrupted both parties and generated a lifetime of rivalry, ...
From Robert Paterson
2.) Lifestyle - 9 Life-Changing Inventions the Experts Said Would ...
Over one day ago | Fri Aug 22 4:00:00 PDT 2008
Edison enjoyed sniping at the efforts of his rival George Westinghouse, and look where it got him. Fact is, it's easier and far more efficient to distribute power with a/c than with Edison's darling direct current. Oops. ...
From unknown
3.) Westinghouse (Air Brake) - 1890
Over one day ago | Mon Jul 14 15:48:00 PDT 2008
October 31, 1865 - George Westinghouse, Jr. of Schenectady, NY, received first patent for a "Rotary Steam Engine"; April 13, 1869 - George Westinghouse, Jr., of Schenectady, NY, received a patent for a "Improvement in Steam-Power Brake ...
From Origins of Business
4.) Kids? Ideas Make Millions?Yours Could, Too!
Over one day ago | Wed Jul 2 1:01:00 PDT 2008
George Westinghouse: Age 19; invented the rotary steam engine. AMAZINGLY SIMPLE INVENTIONS BY ADULTS. Of course, kids aren?t the only ones who can come up with great inventions. Adults have come up with a few good ones, too. ; ) And, ...
From Shanel Yang
5.) Let's Invent the Baby's Name
Over one day ago | Sat Jun 28 12:20:00 PDT 2008
George Eastman - roll film George Westinghouse - air brake Gertrude Belle Elion - anti-leukemia drugs Ghulam Sediq Wardak - 341 inventions without formal patent Giuliana Tesoro - chemical compounds and processes ...
From Inventing Matilda
6.) Download Clash of the Geniuses: Inventing the Impossible Online!
12 hours, 20 minutes ago | Fri Aug 29 2:30:00 PDT 2008
In the 20th century, while Marconi, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse managed to capture most of the attention, others, with technological prowess bordering on the miraculous, have gone unnoticed. Men like Tesla, Moray, ...
From alejandralr8296
7.) NIKOLA TESLA: HIGH VOLTAGE GENIUS
Over one day ago | Mon Aug 25 10:17:00 PDT 2008
He emigrated to the United States in 1884 and sold the patent rights to his system of alternating-current dynamos, transformers, and motors to George Westinghouse the following year. In 1891 he invented the Tesla coil, an induction coil ...
From Hades
8.) Transformer
Over one day ago | Sat Jun 21 9:27:00 PDT 2008
What did Westinghouse do with Niagra Falls ? What does a transformer do? When and where was Westinghouse born? What did he do before inventing? At what age did he file his first patent? What was it for? What else did he invent? ...
From skolarik
9.) rest
Over one day ago | Sun Jun 29 19:28:00 PDT 2008
1853 - Sir George Cayley built and demonstrated the first heavier-then-air aircraft (a glider) ? 1862 - Étienne Lenoir made a gasoline-engine automobile ? 1868 - George Westinghouse invented the compressed-air brake for railway trains. ...
From babysadista
10.) Pittsburgh "Firsts"
Over one day ago | Sat Aug 9 14:53:00 PDT 2008
The first practical air brake for railroads was invented by George Westinghouse in the 1860's and patented in 1869. In the same year he organized the Westinghouse Air Brake Company. With additional automatic features incorporated into ...
From Tom Lang
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