When.com Web Search

  1. Ads

    related to: westinghouse 30 inch ceiling fan with remote and light wiring diagram
    • Amazon Home

      Shop New Home Décor Trends.

      Give Your Room a New Look.

    • Lighting

      Explore Our Most Popular Products.

      Upgrade Your Ceiling Fan and Lights

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Westinghouse Electric Corporation - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westinghouse_Electric...

    1885 – Westinghouse becomes aware of the new European transformer based alternating current systems when he reads about them in the UK technical journal Engineering [35] 1885 – William Stanley, Jr., working for Westinghouse, develops the first practical AC transformer [36] 1886 – Westinghouse Electric Company founded in East Pittsburgh [37]

  3. War of the currents - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_currents

    The war of the currents was a series of events surrounding the introduction of competing electric power transmission systems in the late 1880s and early 1890s. It grew out of two lighting systems developed in the late 1870s and early 1880s; arc lamp street lighting running on high-voltage alternating current (AC), and large-scale low-voltage direct current (DC) indoor incandescent lighting ...

  4. Westinghouse - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westinghouse

    Westinghouse Electric Corporation, the company that manages the Westinghouse brand, with licensees: Westinghouse Electric Company , providing nuclear power-related services Westinghouse Electronics , which sells LED and LCD televisions

  5. Westinghouse Electric Company - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westinghouse_Electric_Company

    Westinghouse Electrique France is located in Orsay and Manosque near Marseille (engineering development). As of 2014, about 400 employees are part of Westinghouse in France. Westinghouse owns a nuclear fuel fabrication plant at Västerås, Sweden which has provided nuclear fuel for Russian VVER-1000 nuclear reactors.

  6. George Westinghouse - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Westinghouse

    Westinghouse's electric business directly competed with Thomas Edison's, who was promoting direct current (DC) electricity. Westinghouse Electric won the contract to showcase its AC system to illuminate the "White City" at the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The company went on to install the world's first large-scale, AC power generation ...

  7. Westinghouse Sign - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westinghouse_Sign

    The Westinghouse Sign was the first computer-controlled sign in the United States. Located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania , the large animated display advertised the Westinghouse Electric Company , and was best known for the seemingly endless number of combinations in which its individual elements could be illuminated.

  8. Westinghouse Time Capsules - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westinghouse_Time_Capsules

    This method involves constructing a loop of wire 10 feet (3.0 m) in diameter and putting an alternating current (between 1,000 and 5,000 hertz) through it with a power of at least 200 watts. A secondary loop of wire, about 1 foot (0.30 m) in diameter, will detect a "distortion field", thus indicating the exact location of the two metal alloy ...

  9. Westinghouse J34 - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westinghouse_J34

    The Westinghouse J34, company designation Westinghouse 24C, was a turbojet engine developed by Westinghouse Aviation Gas Turbine Division in the late 1940s. Essentially an enlarged version of the earlier Westinghouse J30 , the J34 produced 3,000 pounds of thrust, twice as much as the J30.