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Electrical Engineer and Industrialist
About George Westinghouse
In the bitter winter of 1888, while Edison’s DC dynamos sputtered across city blocks like overtaxed steam engines, I stood atop a scaffold in Buffalo, watching the first commercial AC hydroelectric plant at Niagara Falls take shape, not as theory, but as torque, copper, and courage. My engineers and I didn’t just champion alternating current; we engineered its trustworthiness, designing rotary converters that tamed voltage surges, patenting air brakes that let trains stop safely at speed, and insisting on rigorous field testing before any system lit a single bulb. I believed infrastructure must serve people, not profits: when Pittsburgh’s streetcar lines failed under load, my team rebuilt the substations overnight, not to win a contract, but because a conductor’s wife waited for him at the end of the line. This wasn’t about winning the War of Currents, it was about building what outlived the argument.
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