Westinghouse

Westinghouse

Westinghouse may refer to:

In current companies:
*Westinghouse Electric Corporation (1998), and its licensees:
**Westinghouse Digital Electronics, selling LCD televisions and related products
**Salton, Inc., selling vacuum cleaners under the name Westinghouse
**Westinghouse Lighting Corporation, formerly Angelo Brothers Company, selling lamps, lamp fixtures, and ceiling fans
*Westinghouse Electric Company, Nuclear and Power Industry related businesses, sold to Toshiba in 2006
*Westinghouse Rail Systems Ltd, formerly Westinghouse Signals Ltd, part of Invensys In prior companies:
*Westinghouse Air Brake Company, founding name of WABCO
*Westinghouse Electric (1886), also Westinghouse Electric Co. and Westinghouse Electric Corp., renamed CBS Corporation in 1997
*British Westinghouse, later subsumed into The General Electric Company
*Westinghouse Electronic Systems Group, sold to Northrop Grumman in 1996
*White-Westinghouse, acquired by Electrolux in 1986
*Westinghouse Brake and Signal Company Ltd
*Westinghouse Signals, earlier name of Westinghouse Rail Systems
*Westinghouse Brakes (UK), now part of Knorr-Bremse

In places:
*Westinghouse Park, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

In competitions
* former Westinghouse Science Talent Search, now called Intel Science Talent Search - an American science competition for high school students

In science:
* Westinghouse effect, a variant of the social-scientific observer's paradox

People with the surname Westinghouse

*George Westinghouse, founder of Westinghouse Electric Corporation


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