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George Westinghouse

1846 - 1914

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George Westinghouse Jr. (October 6, 1846 – March 12, 1914) was an American entrepreneur and engineer based in Pennsylvania who created the railway air brake and was a pioneer of the electrical industry, receiving his first patent at the age of 19. Westinghouse saw the potential of using alternating current for electric power distribution in the early 1880s and put all his resources into developing and marketing it. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Westinghouse has received more than 1,994,619 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). George Westinghouse is the 32nd most popular inventor (down from 25th in 2019), the 256th most popular biography from United States (down from 218th in 2019) and the 6th most popular American Inventor.

George Westinghouse is most famous for his invention of the air brake.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, George Westinghouse ranks 32 out of 354Before him are Werner von Siemens, James Naismith, Steve Wozniak, Denis Papin, Ernő Rubik, and Bartolomeo Cristofori. After him are Robert Fulton, Joseph Marie Jacquard, Abbas ibn Firnas, László Bíró, Ismail al-Jazari, and Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1846, George Westinghouse ranks 5Before him are Peter Carl Fabergé, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Rudolf Christoph Eucken, and Princess Helena of the United Kingdom. After him are Buffalo Bill, Edmondo De Amicis, Comte de Lautréamont, Wilhelm Maybach, Wladimir Köppen, Prince Leopold of Bavaria, and Gaston Maspero. Among people deceased in 1914, George Westinghouse ranks 7Before him are Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, Pope Pius X, Charles Albert Gobat, Bertha von Suttner, Charles Sanders Peirce, and Frédéric Mistral. After him are Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, Paul Heyse, Carol I of Romania, August Weismann, Jean Jaurès, and Georg Trakl.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, George Westinghouse ranks 256 out of 18,182Before him are Joe Dassin (1938), Calvin Coolidge (1872), Paul Samuelson (1915), John Cage (1912), Rocky Marciano (1923), and Ray Kroc (1902). After him are Oliver Hardy (1892), Gwyneth Paltrow (1972), John Dillinger (1903), Nina Simone (1933), Christopher Lloyd (1938), and Mary Cassatt (1844).

Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, George Westinghouse ranks 6Before him are Thomas Edison (1847), Henry Ford (1863), Samuel Morse (1791), Samuel Colt (1814), and Steve Wozniak (1950). After him are Robert Fulton (1765), Herman Hollerith (1860), Charles Goodyear (1800), William G. Morgan (1870), Willis Carrier (1876), and Isaac Singer (1811).