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Commemorating the Opening of a Museum Honor George Westinghouse
Tags: AC; air brakes; Al Schmid; alternating currents; alternating-current system; American Standard, Inc.; APICS; Berkshire House; Bill Stanley; boats; Chicago Columbian Exposition; Chicago World's Fair; East Pittsburgh Works; Education and Research Foundation of the American Production and Inventory Control Society; electric power industry; electricity; engineering; George Melville; George W. Melville; George Wallace Melville; George Westinghouse and Company; George Westinghouse Museum; George Westinghouse, Jr.; Great Barrington, Massachusetts; Hartford, Connecticut; inventions; inventors; John Dixon Gibbs; John H. McAlpine; laboratories; laboratory; labs; Lucien Gaulard; main-line locomotives; marine turbines; museums; naval vessels; Neptune; Niagara Falls; Nikola Tesla; Pan Handle Route; Panhandle Route; Pittsburgh Packing Company; Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; polyphase systems; propellers; railroad electrification; railroad switching; railroads; railway signaling; railways; Reginald Belfield; rotary steam engines; Schenectady Agricultural Works; secondary generators; ships; single-phase alternative currents; steam turbines; steamboats; steamers; steamships; Stuart and Gibson; The Castle; trains; transformers; transportation; U.S. Navy; Westinghouse Air Brake; Westinghouse Air Brake Company General Office Building; Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company; Westinghouse Electric Corporation; William Stanley, Jr.; Wilmerding, Pennsylvania; World's Columbian Exposition; World's Fair: Columbian Exposition
How George Westinghouse Changed the World
Tags: AC; Alexander Graham Bell; alternating current; American Civil War; American Society of Mechanical Engineers; ASME; Battle of the Currents; Charles Algernon Parsons; Chicago World's Fair and Chicago Columbian Exposition; DC; direct current; electric chairs; electric power systems; electricity; electrocution; engineers; Frank Wicks; General Electric Company; George Westinghouse; George Westinghouse Museum; George Westinghouse, Jr.; George Westinghouse, Sr.; Harold P. Brown; Harold Pitney Brown; Henry Ford; high-speed turbines; inventions; inventors; John Dixon Gibbs; Lucien Gaulard; marguerite Westinghouse; mechanical brakes; mechanical engineering; Nikola Tesla; Oliver B. Shallenberger; Oliver Blackburn Shallenberger; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; railroads; railways; RMS Lusitania; Schenectady, New York; Thomas Alva Edison; Thomas Edison; trains; transformers; U.S. Army; U.S. Navy; War of Currents; War of the Current; Westinghouse Electric Company; Westinghouse Electric Corporation; William Francis Kemmler; William Kemmler; World's Columbian Exposition; World's Fair: Columbian Exposition
The Generation Gap, Special Edition
Tags: Alafaya Trail; construction; East Colonial Drive; engineering; generators; heat transfer; Ken Oleson; Lester, Pennsylvania; mechanics; metallurgy; orlando; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; relocation; Stan Quick; Steam Turbine-Generator Division; steam turbines; STGD; The Generation Gap; UCF; University of Central Florida; Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Westinghouse Power Generation Booklet
Tags: 251 turbines; 501D turbine cylinders; 501D5 combustion turbine units; AC; Age of Electricity; air brakes; Alafaya Trail; alternating current; American Centennial Exposition; Brookhaven National Laboratory; CADD; CAES; central power stations; Charles Parsons; Chicago Columbian Exposition; Chicago World's Fair; clean coal; combustion turbines; Commonwealth Atlantic Limited Partnership; compressed air energy storage; compressed air energy storage system; computer-aided design and drafting system; DC; direct current; Dow Chemical Company; electric transmission; Electrical Components; electricity; energy; energy conservation; engineering; engineers; engines; Enron Corporation; extended factory; factories; FAST; FAST Gen II; Field Availability Service Terminal; fuel; Garrison Alley; generators; Guido Pantaleoni; Hagood Station; Hartford Electric Light Company; hydrogen-cooled generators; John Dixon Gibbs; Lucien Gaulard; Magnet Systems Division; Model W21; NDE; Nikola Tesla; non-destructive examination; Oliver B. Shallenberger; Oliver Blackburn Shallenberger; orlando; PartsEXPRESS; patent rights; patents; Pensacola Manufacturing Plant; PFBC; PGBU; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Power Generation Business Unit; Power Generation Canadian Division; Power Generation Factory; Power Generation Headquarters; Power Generation North American Factory; Power Generation Projects Division; power industry; power plants; pressurized fluidized bed combustors; railroads; rapid rotor rewind; research; Rigi-Flex; solid oxide fuel cells; South Carolina Electric and Gas Company; steam turbines; Superconducting Super Collider Project; superconductivity; superconductors; Texas-New Mexico Power Company; The Quadrangle; Thermalastic; Thomas Alva Edison; Thomas Edison; transformers; Turbine Components Plant; Turbine-Generator Manufacturing Plant; turbines; Union Switch and Signal Company; Vacuum Spin Chamber; Westinghouse Electric Corporation; William Stanley; Wizard of Menlo Park; World's Columbian Exposition; World's Fair: Columbian Exposition
Letter from George B. Agnew to Isaac Vanderpool (May 21, 1895)
RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 46: An Interview with Joy Wallace Dickinson, Part 2
Tags: African American; Anderson, Robert; art; art festival; artist; author; baseball; baseball field; Beat Generation; Blackburn, Harlan; Bolita; casino; Chance, Frank Leroy; College Park; Cracker Mafia; crime; Cuba; desegregation; Dickinson, Joy Wallace; documentary; Evers, John "Johnny" Joseph; Evers, Johnny; festival; Flamingo Club; Florida State Road 50; gambling; George Stewart's Office Supplies; Havana, Cuba; integration; Jacksonville; journalism; journalist; Kerouac, Jack; King of the Beats; King, Martin Luther, Jr.; literature; local history; lottery; Mafia; meteorologist; Miami; Mitchell, E. B.; National Register of Historic Places; newspaper; nightclub; On the Road; organize crime; orlando; Park Avenue; photographer; photography; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; podcast; Remembering Orlando: Tales from Elvis to Disney; restaurant; RICHES Podcast Documentaries; Robert Cassanello; segregation; Spring Training; SR 50; Stump, Charles "Charlie" W., Jr.; Stump, Charlie; Tampa; The Milton Berle Show; The Orlando Sentinel; Tinker Field; Tinker, Joe; Tinker, Joseph "Joe" Bert; weatherman; Winter Park; Winter Park Sidewalk Art Festival; writer
RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 1: Preview
Tags: Adicks, Richard; Bethune-Cookman College; Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka; Cape Canaveral; Cocoa; Cross, Phil; documentary; Downtown Orlando; FEC; Florida A&M University; Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University; Florida East Coast Railway; Hoover, J. Edgar; Institute for Simulation and Training; JHS; Johnson, Lyndon Baines; Jones High School; Kerouac, Jack; Lake Eola; Moore, Harry T.; New York World's Fair; Oakland; OBT; Orange Blossom Trail; orlando; Parliament House Resort; Pittsburgh Steelers; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; podcast; Reeves, Orlando; RICHES; RICHES Podcast Documentaries; Robert Cassanello; Seminole War; Tavares and Gulf Railroad; UCF; University of Central Florida; Walters, Lori; Wheeler, Ben; World War