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.
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Defining ContributionCommercialization of the alternating current power system 1 George Westinghouse
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The Adams plant ran Westinghouse machinery built on the Tesla polyphase patents.
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Technologies Developed
Westinghouse commercialized the transformer in America on the ZBD and Gaulard-Gibbs work, with William Stanley as his engineer.
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Wikidata Q262367, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source George Westinghouse (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Natural Gas, Lead sectionQuote, Associated With: Natural Gas, Lead section
In the early 1880s, he developed inventions for the safe production, transmission, and use of natural gas.
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