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This article is about the defunct Westinghouse Electric Corporation founded in 1886, renamed CBS Corporation in 1997, and purchased by Viacom in 1999. For the present-day media company, see CBS Corporation. For other uses of the term "Westinghouse" including modern incarnations and recent licensing deals, see Westinghouse.
The Westinghouse Electric Corporation was an organization founded by George Westinghouse in 1886 as Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company. The company purchased CBS in 1995 and was renamed CBS Corporation in 1997. George Westinghouse had previously founded the Westinghouse Air Brake Company. Westinghouse Electric received the rights for the first patent for alternating-current transmission from Nikola Tesla and unveiled the technology for lighting in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. The company pioneered long-distance power transmission and high-voltage transmission. In addition to George Westinghouse, engineers working for the company include William Stanley, Nikola Tesla and Oliver Schallenberger. It was historically the rival to General Electric. Timeline of company evolution
) Close up of Westinghouse logo on historic kitchen stove at John & Mable Ringling Museum, Sarasota
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He began his career in 1975 at Westinghouse Electric Corporation as an income tax accountant. Eaton acquired the Distribution and Control Business Unit (DCBU) from Westinghouse Electric Corporation in January 1994 for $1. Furthermore, as the New York Court of Appeals' 1993 decision in Westinghouse Electric Corporation v. |
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