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5 days ago · George Westinghouse patented his first air brake in 1869. He had difficulty persuading railroad officials that air could stop a train, but the efficiency of his system convinced detractors, and, by 1880, the Westinghouse automatic air brake had been installed on 2,211 locomotives and 7,224 cars in the United States.
4 days ago · Christopher George Latore Wallace (May 21, 1972 – March 9, 1997), better known by his stage names The Notorious B.I.G. or Biggie Smalls, was an American rapper. Rooted in East Coast hip hop and particularly gangsta rap, he is widely considered to be one of the greatest rappers of all time.
12 hours ago · The history of electricity has a significant place around Telluride. And, indeed, there is no more dramatic symbol than that house high on the cliff, beside Colorado’s tallest free-falling ...
1 day ago · At Columbia, Karl P. Cohen produced a body of mathematical theory making it possible to design a centrifugal separation unit, which Westinghouse undertook to construct. Scaling this up to a production plant presented a formidable technical challenge.
1 day ago · Sir Isaac Newton FRS (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27 [a]) was an English polymath active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author who was described in his time as a natural philosopher. [7] He was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment that followed.
3 days ago · But Edison was not alone in the rush to bring electricity to homes and buildings; George Westinghouse‘s company developed an alternating current system that utilized transformers.
5 days ago · Authorities are responding to an unspecified incident on New York City's George Washington Bridge as of the afternoon of May 18. Preliminary information suggests authorities may be responding to a possible jumper; however, this has yet to be confirmed.
