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George Westinghouse : gentle genius / Quentin R. Skrabec, Jr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Skrabec, Quentin R.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Inventors--United States--Biography.
- Inventors.
- Electrical engineering--History.
- Electrical engineering.
- Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company--History.
- Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company.
- Westinghouse, George, 1846-1914.
- Westinghouse, George.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (272 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Algora Pub., c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- George Westinghouse's story is rich in drama and in breadth, a story of power, city building, and applying the Golden Rule in business. His biography intersects with those of many great personalities of the Gilded Age, such as J.P Morgan, Henry Clay Frick, Andrew Carnegie, the Mellon Family, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and Nikola Tesla. One of the most successful industrialists in America, George Westinghouse was a wizard who took a much different approach than Thomas Edison. Westinghouse became a manager of innovation. He was not only an inventor in his own right, but the orchestra leader of a
- Contents:
- Introduction; Chapter 1. The Panic of 1907; Chapter 2. In Search of Character; Chapter 3. Railroad Inventor; Chapter 4. Pittsburgh Industrialist; Chapter 5. Victorian Engineer; Chapter 6. American and International Industrialist; Chapter 7. A New Interest; Chapter 8. The War of the Currents; Chapter 9. Westinghouse and the Tesla System; Chapter 10. Westinghouse Goes to the Fair; Chapter 11. Wilmerding, America's Company Town; Chapter 12. Niagara's White Coal; Chapter 13. East Pittsburgh; Chapter 14. Duopoly; Chapter 15. Industrial Diplomat; Chapter 16. The Old Genius and His Employees
- Chapter 17. His Last ChapterEpilogue: Capitalism with a Heart -A Futuristic Vision; Bibliography
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-250) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-281-39849-7
- 9786611398491
- 0-87586-508-9
- OCLC:
- 476115302
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