The American industrialist who bet on alternating current when Edison called it deadly, bought the Tesla patents, and built the company that electrified America on AC. His plants lit the 1893 Chicago World Fair and harnessed Niagara Falls in 1895, the victories that settled the war of currents.
Facts
Defining ContributionCommercialization of the alternating current power system 1 George Westinghouse
Connections
Milestones Credited
The Adams plant ran Westinghouse machinery built on the Tesla polyphase patents.
Source Encyclopedia Britannica
Technologies Developed
Westinghouse commercialized the transformer in America on the ZBD and Gaulard-Gibbs work, with William Stanley as his engineer.
Source Encyclopedia Britannica
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Sources
1. Encyclopedia Britannica
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